Word: chic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...happy family riven by the teenage son's death - in acutely somber vignettes that avoid the seductions of sentimentality and melodrama. The Piano Teacher stirs up a tasty poison porridge of lusts and hatreds between a precocious pianist (Benoît Magimel) and his stern tutor (Isabelle Huppert); in chic, lurid images it suggests that teachers, perhaps all adults, try to express and exorcise their frustrations by dominating their charges. In coarser hands, this tale of obsession and self-mutilation could be ludicrous from the start; in these hands it is goofy only toward the end, when the sadistic teacher...
...Haberdashery MUSLIM CHIC Heading to Afghanistan and hoping to blend in with the locals? Better lose the T shirt from Springsteen's Born in the USA tour or the one emblazoned with a Yankees logo. Instead, pick up a paean to local legend Osama bin Laden. Though he is considered a terrorist and all-round pariah in the West, at home his name moves merchandise...
...Recession Chic Bowl America If you thought those unemployment figures were bad, here's a new set of depressing numbers, written in big red numerals on the backs of one's heels. Bowling shoes are back in style?not the kind Prada and Donna Karan sell, but the kind bowling alleys rent out by the hour and lose to petty thieves. The last time rental bowling shoes were hot was in the early '90s, the grunge era and the depths of the downsizing of America's corporations. Now, as the U.S. economy slides, lane operators from Phoenix to Milwaukee have...
...most xenophobic decade. That is exactly wrong: then, the seemingly alien cultures of Europe and Asia held endless fascination for Americans who were either back from war service abroad, their aesthetic tastes spiced a bit, or simply tired of bland domestic fare. Foreign-language pictures were suddenly chic, and represented a much broader geographic span than today; world-class auteurs emerged not just from France and Italy but from Japan, India, Sweden. Ingmar Bergman would eventually make the cover of TIME...
...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks—we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...