Word: chic
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...perfectly suited his smooth, pleasant voice and the casual wit of his professional personality. One would call the Crosby style debonair, if the word didn't suggest class. Bing was of every class and none; his trick was to elevate the Joe Average attitude to a kind of masculine chic. It was an attitude, of a man at ease with himself and his success, that would help him dominate entertainment until the '50s. In pop-cultural history - Jolson to Crosby to Elvis - Bing was the calm before the storm...
...Takeshi's world has become as hierarchical as the society he has plundered for so much of his comedic loot. And Beat Takeshi's rebellion, which started as a genuinely subversive take on Japan, has become as ritualized as the culture it spoofs and as stylized as the gangster chic in his latest movie...
...trend toward Tibet Chic hasn't always been smooth. When Dadawa released her first album in England in 1995, she angered both Tibetans and Chinese. Tibetan independence activists accused her of exploiting the culture; some protested outside the London office of her label Warner Records. Back in China, her songs became a sensation among Tibetans when they heard on the background track of her biggest hit the voice of a woman praising, in Tibetan, the current Dalai Lama?the government discovered the track two days after awarding Dadawa its equivalent of a Grammy. She had to recall and re-edit...
...much of the innovation in travel these days is an effort to restore that spirit of freedom. As airlines merge into more impersonal behemoths, an aviation executive creates a low-price, customer-friendly carrier that gives flyers a real choice. Three entrepreneurs convert a Seattle halfway house into a chic inn that people can actually afford. A computer geek almost accidentally creates an online service that cuts through Web clutter to find lower fares. An aviator builds an inexpensive private jet that can almost fit in your garage--the ultimate escape vehicle. Sure, the rest of us still have...
...Alex Calderwood realized that there was really no place to stay for the people in their crowd--designers, DJs and other fashion-conscious urbanites. So with partner Doug Herrick they took over a former halfway house in a downtown neighborhood and created Ace, Seattle's new haven for flophouse chic--a mode that could be hospitality's next wave. "They're outsiders," says Ian Schrager, the pioneer of hip hotels. "Which is the way we were, and which I like...