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...heart of Paris' opulent 16th arrondissement. But what does all this nouveau squalor have to do with contemporary art? The curators don't explain. Nor do they say why they didn't simply move into one of the many dilapidated industrial sites around Paris. Presumably, their intended audience prefers chic imitation to the real thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: But Is It Art? | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By An ANONYMOUS Grader, | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

...ALIAS (ABC) Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner, below left) is a waifish grad student who looks as if you could knock her over with a heavy textbook. And she's a karate-kicking, gadget-wielding double agent. Ridiculous? Yes, and wonderful. Reveling in '60s spy chic, this stylish, turbocharged and emotionally charged CIA serial grew more addictively complicated, involving and suspenseful with each episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best and Worst of 2001: Television: Best and Worst of 2001 | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...Terror chic has gone the way of heroin chic. Expect pretty ads for spring. Designer Marc Jacobs, who was in New York on Sept. 11 and was so shaken that he had to postpone his Louis Vuitton collection in Paris, has now said that the new Vuitton ads won't feature travel imagery. Instead? A fantasy, fairytale theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More 'Terror Chic' | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...time when French food became chic, Child helped popularize the cuisine and bring French cooking down to earth. On television, Child was known for hacking the heads off fish, firing up her blowtorch to caramelize a creme brulee and trilling about “wonderful” and “delicious” dishes...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Julia Child Turns in Her Apron | 11/7/2001 | See Source »

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