Word: chic
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Some movies are so ferociously prejudged -- sometimes because of costs that seem scandalous, sometimes because of controversies with pressure groups or the ratings board -- that it becomes difficult to evaluate them fairly when they appear. One looks so chic (and so inside) airily dismissing something like Ishtar or Hudson Hawk. What fun for critics and show-biz reporters. And so easy...
...number...The Indian gurus...The $100 limit on campaign contributions...The turtleneck-and-flannel chic...Zen Buddhism...The visit to Mother Teresa's mission...California...
...group geared their first skit to fast-track toddlers interested in learning to spell the hard way (e.g., sigh + chic = psychic, shoot + pa = chutzpah). The Veritones' second break was a lame plug for their auditions, starring no one other than Roseanne Rosannadanna. Eminently forgettable. The one skit that did show some originality was the commercial for the perfume "Insecure," the fragrance that says "You Suck...
...intend to make lack of charisma the chic phenomenon of the '90s," Tsongas says...
...reason for her high profile is that Paglia has bristling opinions on subjects other than feminism -- particularly education. She advocates a core curriculum based mostly on the classics and rails against what she considers politicized frills, such as most African-American studies and the currently chic French theorists Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan. Never one to let consistency get in her way, Paglia has a strong libertarian streak -- on subjects like pornography -- that go straight to her '60s coming...