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Wolf acknowledges that the concentration is somewhat "cliquey". Howell, who says that the food at her cafe is the best on campus and that the lobby exhibitions at the Carpenter Center are very interesting, also says that "the people who hang out here are chic, chi-chi--they see themselves as artistes...
...Michael Kujawski, 27, of Marquette University, last year became president of the local chapter of an organization that combats student alcoholism. Marylee James, 45, enrolled at Furman University, is a member of the Navy Reserve and an ex-nurse who counseled Viet Nam veterans before, she says, "it was chic to be a Viet...
Leading the forces of chaos were "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park their bicycles straight." Wallace became the Spartacus of an American class revolt against the elite and the chic and the powerful. He developed a fine dismissive snarl. "Send them a message," he said, in that thick, dark voice. Half an inch beneath the surface of his words there ran an undercurrent of menace. There was a backwoods defiance in the fire that lit George Wallace up. There was also something, more than something, of the opportunist and the demagogue...
Daniel Ortega is often called shy, soft-spoken, retiring: "the reluctant ruler." Not Murillo. The First Lady maintains the kind of profile that goes with $300 glasses. A darling of the radical chic, the articulate, outspoken Murillo counts Bianca Jagger (also a Nicaraguan) and Harry Belafonte among her friends. In New York City for January's large international writers' congress, Murillo was escorted by Little Steven Van Zandt, a rock songwriter who produced the antiapartheid anthem Sun City. She had planned to attend an antidrug seminar in Atlanta last week at which Nancy Reagan was hostess, but did not obtain...
...Eleanor (Kristen Gasser)--a painting preserver undergoing a mid-life crisis and a part-time music teacher approaching menopause. James and Eleanor's children have all left home, creating a void in the couple's life. Bored, James allows the former lover of his dead friend Albert, a chic young woman named Kate (Nan Dunham), to seduce him into his first-ever extra-marital liaison...