Word: chic
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...BIKER CHIC www.bike.org.il/taba It's easy to mistake the last Friday of every month for Mardi Gras in downtown Tel Aviv. That's when 100 cyclists ride through the streets, some wearing carnival shirts, wigs and clown outfits. The bikeathons, organized by activist Emily Silverman, try to draw attention to the Israeli city's polluted air. In response, city hall has approved the group's plan for 16 miles (26 km) of bike paths, which will cost $9 million to build...
...movement of whom toward what, though? That's the puzzle. What's the opposite of globalization? Socialism? Isolationism? Vegetarianism? The answer is all three things, and many more. The radical-chic outfit of the season is a coat of many colors. If you trained a license plate-reading surveillance satellite on Washington last week (or better yet, swept low in a black helicopter), you would have seen bumper stickers, signs and buttons promoting animal rights, organic farming and Pat Buchanan for President. You'd even have seen a soccer ball or two being kicked around by--this is real--something...
...Garden of Pleasures was on counter." Dior positioned Lily, its 1999 limited-edition release, as a modern interpretation of the 1956 classic Diorissimo. Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and Lancome have all put limited-edition scents into the marketplace. Escada has launched its eighth annual limited-edition scent, called Lily Chic...
...gadgets. We'll have to reinvent a nail for the elegant hammer and prepare attractive trash for the see-through wastebasket. We architects designed buildings based on such concepts as "form follows function," "organic architecture" and "less is more." Now industrial designers are coining terms like "blobjects," "commodity chic" and "cutensils" by creating items to match. Kudos to them. CLEMENT R. PRABAKARAN Sterling Heights, Mich...
...that terrifies post-feminist whites. Indeed, Roger Too White, the Uncle Tom-style lawyer in A Man in Full, loses his blackness by allowing white society to emasculate him. Sexual temptation is the urge within him to return to his own race. In his 1970 essay on "Radical Chic," Wolfe described a fundraiser for the Black Panthers at the Park Avenue digs of composer Leonard Bernstein '39, a congregation of "white liberals nibbling caviar while signing checks for the revolution with their free hand". he wrote. For Wolfe, it is clear that guilt-ridden whites have gone soft. Black culture...