Word: chic
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...With a smart cast and a chic patina, Ron Howard's The Paper reprises this theme, less to celebrate old times than to offer a skeptical perspective on career men and women. Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton), metro editor for the Sun, a New York City tabloid, has to worry about a local race crime -- or is it a mob rubout? -- on a day when he should be thinking about his pregnant, ex-reporter wife (Marisa Tomei) and the cushier job she wants him to take at an uptown daily. There are clever doses of cynicism and office politicking...
Sure, Harvard students aren't as fashion conscious as some. But FM knows that behind the glasses and too much plaid, everyone is checking out each other's latest outfits. To save unwitting students from potential and totally serious embarrassment, FM took the burden upon itself of informing the chic Harvard community of what is a total faux pas this month. (Fashion changes fast; fortunately FM keeps up with...
...feminism and, incredibly, African American studies--neither of which, as the paper trail of her books shows, she had any prior interest in. The shameless chameleon display was capped off by her melodramatic avowal, at a 1991 Harvard rally, of her lesbianism, a p persuasion that had become politically chic...
...There I was standing in the lobby of my chic Latin Quarter hotel, in my handmade suit, Burberry coat and Paul Stuart scarf, when this French couple comes up to me and asks whether I'm their cab driver. I was polite, I just said no. At the time I was angry, but thinking about it later, I was furious. Those guys just weren't seeing...
...victim chic has found its finest expression in Lyle and Erik Menendez. The brothers admitted what they had done only when the existence of a tape their psychologist had secretly made became known. On it they said they had killed their parents because it was what was best for their mother, who had been cheated on by her husband. So what could the jury have made of the fact that they reloaded to shoot her point-blank in the face when she refused to quit crawling away...