Word: chic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being poorly managed? If you're a member, you just have no way of knowing: your co-op is being managed incognito. But it doesn't have to be this way. The directors of the Coop are elected by its members. And while political activism may no longer be chic, even the most pragmatic aspirant to Harvard Business School should be able to get excited about a little economic activism. In theory at least, if enough people are interested in a cooperative society that will actually save them money, we could actually make the Coop cooperative...
...because they all, with the possible exception of Castleton, are permanently set in their absurd ways. Not much room is left over for suspense. A little more forward momentum might have made The Sioux a minor classic. As it now stands, or careens, the novel is a curiosity tres chic...
...themes of flight and pursuit, of innocence shading into culpability, are Hitchcockian. But John Landis' film is not a genre genuflection; it is a thoroughly modern, satanically entertaining night flight into the Zeitgeist city of the 1980s. This Los Angeles is a kingdom of chic sleaze, where every black soul gleams like Bakelite. In the Rodeo Drive boutiques, Iranian thugs and their bimbos are served champagne and caviar. Diana's brother (Bruce McGill) dresses himself and his apartment in Elvis memorabilia and drives a white Caddy bearing the legend THE KING LIVES. A shabby-genteel Brit (David Bowie) eases...
...hours of Bob Dylan," says Actress Susan Saint James, who came for the film festival and decided to buy a house five years ago. "It's like a time warp." Ever since the first ski trails and lifts were built in 1972, developers have eyed the town's secret chic for a major resort. In 1979 Telluride Ski Corp. (Telco) announced upscale Mountain Village: 92 acres of residences, hotels, a golf course and new intermediate runs, necessary to attract family-oriented baby boomers. The whole operation was to be built six miles and a mountainside away from Telluride, linked...
Ever since 1968, when Philip Morris ads first proclaimed that smokers of its Virginia Slims cigarettes had "come a long way, baby," tobacco companies have been battling for the women's market. R.J. Reynolds now hopes to outclass the competition with the last word in smoking chic--designer cigarettes. Reynolds in March will begin test-marketing Ritz, a brand that will feature the logo of France's Yves Saint Laurent on both the package and the individual cigarettes. Reynolds Vice President Sally MacKinnon says the new 100-mm regular and mentholflavored smoke is aimed at women in their...