Word: chic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Forget about frumpy galoshes. Thanks to shoe designers Sigerson Morrison, even the messiest rainy days can be weathered in style with their chic rubber flats ($125) in a garden variety of colors...
...Sidewalk Chic...
Enjoy Flash Fried Calamari with Chic Peas & Tahini Mayonnaise ($10.25) along with a main course of Charcoal Duck Breast and Roasted Leg with Rhubarb Coulis & Quinoa Grains ($21.50). After your meal head downstairs to the Red Room, where hipster crowds sip cocktails. Sonsie is a classic choice, so grab your camel hair blazer or your Balenciaga bag and head over...
...while Häagen-Dazs has catered to customers who think that gourmet foods are chic, Ben & Jerry's has tried to create an image of simple, down-home wholesomeness. Instead of being decorated with a map of Scandinavia, Ben & Jerry's cartons show a picture of the two be spectacled, bushy-haired owners, who look like refugees from a '60s commune. Pals since they were in high school in Merrick, N.Y., Cohen and Greenfield decided in 1977 that making ice cream would be more fun than what they were doing. Having failed to get into medical school, Greenfield was then...
That's about as complex as the dialogue and characters get in this chic, wanton thriller. To which Director William Friedkin might riposte, "They're called movies, you know, not chatties or peo-plies." L.A. does move, notably in a brutal, bloated car-chase sequence pilfered from Friedkin's nifty The French Connection. In his God's-eye-view shots and acrobatic love scenes, he also pays tribute to the styles of Martin Scorsese and MTV. So the villain, Counterfeiter Willem Dafoe, is no more rotten or less picturesque than the hero, William Petersen. So everybody stinks. It matters...