Word: chichiness
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...Beals seems capable of full human animation, it might be argued that they are made for each other. It might also be argued that Franc Roddam's palely loitering direction would defeat even more experienced actors. What is inarguable is that this is the year's most excruciatingly chichi film. PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE...
Before the presidential motorcade passed through, traffic on the street was blocked off. But the plotters had thought of that. They had parked their two explosives-packed vehicles in advance at separate gas stations on Jhanda Chichi Road in Rawalpindi. As the convoy carrying Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf approached, the suicide drivers sped into action. A guard stepped into the path of one vehicle, costing him his life and causing the assassin's van to crash into a car in the motorcade and instantly explode; within a minute, the other vehicle blew up just yards from Musharraf's armored Mercedes...
...this trend is obviously troubling. Children named after products inevitably become associated with them; so, with a name like Chanel, a girl would easily be associated with pricey makeup. People first encountering her conspicuously chichi name quickly deem Chanel a materialist snob...
...outbreak of hepatitis A at the Beaver Valley Mall outside Pittsburgh, Pa.--the largest recorded in U.S. history, with three dead and nearly 600 infected--has got doctors and folks who eat at ChiChi's scrambling to come to terms with a disease usually considered pretty benign, at least compared with its more deadly cousins, B and C. As thousands in the Pittsburgh area lined up for shots of immune globulin, which can stave off infection if given quickly enough, disease detectives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) traced the problem to a bad batch of scallions...
...what's driving the movement toward chichi sideshows? Baby boomers, for the most part. They are the ones who can afford the often steep price tag that comes with these adventures (trips average about $2,500 a week, not including travel to the point of departure). As bike trips have grown in popularity, tour operators such as Butterfield & Robinson butterfieldandrobinson.com in Toronto and Backroads in California--two of the oldest active-travel companies--have learned that they can snag more customers with a tour that includes evening theater trips and fine wines than if it's just about the bike...