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Word: chic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usually in the form of coconut oil, lurks in most commercially baked breads and cakes, in nondairy creamers, on the oiled surface of frozen French fries, and even in wholesome granola. At Washington's Center for Science in the Public Interest, Nutritionist Bonnie Liebman has investigated the chic new frozen foods and found that some are surprisingly heavy in fat. Among them: Armour's Dinner Classics, Swanson's Le Menu and Pepperidge Farm's frozen vegetables in pastry. Of the 200 calories in each of Pepperidge Farm's croissants, she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hold the Eggs and Butter | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

This would merely be the latest spasm of cannibal chic-the recycling of pop-culture artifacts that produces Top 40 homages to the Three Stooges and drag queens in Marilyn Monroe sequins-if it were not for a more significant revival. Five Hitchcock films are back where they belong, in the movie theaters, after 20 years in distribution limbo. Constituting the best and the least of Hitchcock's work during his most productive decade (1948-58), the "forbidden five" are once again demonstrating their director's box-office magnetism. Rear Window (1954), the first of the quintet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Master Who Knew Too Much | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...record industry stuck on the border between the ruins of punk and the chic regions of synthesizer pop, Thriller was a thorough restoration of confidence, a rejuvenation. Its effect on listeners, especially younger ones, was nearer to a revelation. Thriller brought black music back to mainstream radio, from which it had been effectively banished after restrictive "special-format programming" was introduced in the mid-'70s. Listeners could put more carbonation in their pop and cut their heavy-metal diet with a dose of the fleetest soul around. "No doubt about it," says Composer-Arranger Quincy Jones, who produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why He's a Thriller | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...with an ignorant audience. During the early 70s, for instance, when citrusscented toiletries were the rage, some un-with-it shoppers exasperated cosmetics counter workers by whining, "But I don't want to smell like a lemon!" Likewise, future generations will scratch their heads over today's Heavy Metal chic, which makes its wearers look like walking chain collisions...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Outside In | 3/17/1984 | See Source »

Once housed in the Prime Minister's residence, Trudeau continued to cavort in public. He stunned staid pols by sliding down banisters and squiring young women to chic discothèques. After a secret courtship came his 1971 marriage-since failed, amid excessive publicity-to Margaret Sinclair, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: A Stroll, a Sauna and au Revoir | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

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