Word: chic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...couple hundred journalists milled this morning at Carlton Beach, an outdoor restaurant with a pier that juts into the Mediterranean. They looked across the Croisette, the wide oceanside strip that is the Cannes Film Festival's own chic boulevard, and up to the top of the seven-story Carlton Hotel, a white building with wedding-cake ornamentation. There, in a bulbous bee costume, stood Jerry Seinfeld, being attached to a guy wire by several burly technicians. He was about to "fly" about a hundred yards onto the pier, risking life and reputation to promote his animated film Bee Movie. "Anything...
...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...
...adherents of extreme-left and anti-globalization ideologies. "There are a few types from the projects mixing things up at the fringes, but most of these clashes involve young radicals and anarchists raging against a democratic election," says one member of France's security services. "This is extreme-left chic - mostly university students deciding to vandalize, fight cops, then go home...
...Shanghai. In these cities, shopping is as important as stargazing, and that's why the $2 billion firm made its first moves into Asia here: H&M wants a share of China's $60 billion apparel market. To do that it may have to redefine its trademark "cheap chic" aesthetic...
...record will show that Mather House fired the first shot. On Sunday night, while the Harvard Undergraduate Council (UC) split hairs about paying for club sports and ultra-chic fashion shows, the Mather House Council (HoCo) voted to secede from Harvard University. The causus belli: a foam machine...