Word: chic
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...Schwarzenegger--big and burly, with way more muscle power than is needed? Much rarer is the notion that a film can address the subtleties of emotion, that it can have curve and contour, beauty and heart. In the '90s, alas, the Oscar category of Best Actress has become a chic, sparse ghetto. It's hard to find five films in which women have exciting, dominant roles...
Club Dead opens with a cinematic sequence that is unmistakably MTV. A harddriving, Stone Temple Pilots-like sound loop accompanies digitized video whose grainy and flickering characteristics are quite apropos against the violent, brash animation--way to go for MTV to turn technological limitation into chic...
...party, a civilized affair in a garden courtyard, was well attended by graduating high school girls. Keanu's sister was among them, and He had been invited by her. About fifteen minutes after I arrived, Keanu strode into the courtyard, sporting an air of nonchalance, a Hollywood-chic black outfit, and a seemingly genuine enjoyment of His particular situation on this festive day. I caught sight of the stares from girls to their friends that screamed, "HE'S HERE OMIGOD HE'S GORGEOUS!" just as I saw Him for the first time, almost face to face. I nodded to acknowledge...
...Chic. at Los Angeles...
...prestigious Eastern-seaboard college. A professor of American studies is addressing the packed class for his course "From Wham! to Pearl Jam: Aesthetic Shifts in Late 20th Century Popular Culture." The 1990s were a Golden Age in the history of American tastes, he argues, a decade of pared-down chic superior to the one that preceded it. To bolster his thesis, he cites the rise of poignant alternative music, the popularity of earth-toned packaging and the disappearance of clothing with shoulder pads. His students are unconvinced. What was so great, they shout, about an era that gave us Robert...