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Conservation has become both chic and controversial in Portland, which has perhaps the most far-reaching municipal energy-saving programs in the U.S. The city government has tried to fight fuel waste by discouraging the use of automobiles and by encouraging citizens to weatherize their homes and businesses. The goal is to reduce the city's total energy use by one-third...
...movies, it is usually the couple two rows back who turn out to be practitioners of voice-over chic, tenderly broadcasting all the half-baked thoughts they ever half-understood about Fellini. Dial a phone number and the absent owner's talking machine coughs a set piece of cuteness before granting a moment for you to interject a brief message. As for bridge players, the typical foursome hardly finishes the play of a hand before the air burbles with a redundant rehashing...
...grand optical illusion, that it had never, ever been tried or felt before. No doubt as the baby boomers pass on through life, their millennial pretensions will do for middle age and old age what they did for youth in the '60s: in 35 years will come geriatric chic, revolution in the nursing homes. But just now, the baby boomers, in their early-to mid-30s, are grappling for the first time with life's serious, mundane and (in many cases) long postponed business: trying to discover living arrangements more permanent than mere roommating, finding ways to raise...
...tried to raise the entire community's awareness of Asian American history and culture. The images of Asian that we present are different from those found in Jordan Marsh, Fu Manchu, and the Hasty Pudding Theatricals because they come directly from our people's experience. Being Asian is not chic or exotic; it is an identity integrally tied to a history of contract labor, violence, and exculsion. It is an identity linked to the development of supportive organizations family associations, and self-sufficient communites. It is an identity that has directly maintained the foods, languages, and cultures of our homelands...
Standing in the ornate sitting room of the F Street Club, a turn-of-the-century town house that is often the scene of chic dinner parties, the Reagans received their guests, including Mayor Marion Barry Jr., National Gallery of Art Director J. Carter Brown, Howard University President James Cheek, Department Store Magnate John Hechinger, and Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington...