Word: chic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael Kujawski, 27, of Marquette University, last year became president of the local chapter of an organization that combats student alcoholism. Marylee James, 45, enrolled at Furman University, is a member of the Navy Reserve and an ex-nurse who counseled Viet Nam veterans before, she says, "it was chic to be a Viet...
Leading the forces of chaos were "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park their bicycles straight." Wallace became the Spartacus of an American class revolt against the elite and the chic and the powerful. He developed a fine dismissive snarl. "Send them a message," he said, in that thick, dark voice. Half an inch beneath the surface of his words there ran an undercurrent of menace. There was a backwoods defiance in the fire that lit George Wallace up. There was also something, more than something, of the opportunist and the demagogue...
Daniel Ortega is often called shy, soft-spoken, retiring: "the reluctant ruler." Not Murillo. The First Lady maintains the kind of profile that goes with $300 glasses. A darling of the radical chic, the articulate, outspoken Murillo counts Bianca Jagger (also a Nicaraguan) and Harry Belafonte among her friends. In New York City for January's large international writers' congress, Murillo was escorted by Little Steven Van Zandt, a rock songwriter who produced the antiapartheid anthem Sun City. She had planned to attend an antidrug seminar in Atlanta last week at which Nancy Reagan was hostess, but did not obtain...
...Eleanor (Kristen Gasser)--a painting preserver undergoing a mid-life crisis and a part-time music teacher approaching menopause. James and Eleanor's children have all left home, creating a void in the couple's life. Bored, James allows the former lover of his dead friend Albert, a chic young woman named Kate (Nan Dunham), to seduce him into his first-ever extra-marital liaison...
When Savimbi came to Washington last month to seek support for his guerrilla organization, UNITA, in its struggle against the Marxist regime in Angola, he hired Black, Manafort. What the firm achieved was quickly dubbed "Savimbi chic." Doors swung open all over town for the guerrilla leader, who was dapperly attired in a Nehru suit and ferried about in a stretch limousine. Dole had shown only general interest in Savimbi's cause until Black, the Senate majority leader's former aide, approached him on his client's behalf. Dole promptly introduced a congressional resolution backing UNITA's insurgency and sent...