Word: chichiness
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...Zygomates, a chichi wine bar near South Station, Audrey M. Huff, a fourth year extension school student, placed her glass of red wine on the steel bar and began to talk about the gap that separates extension school undergraduates from the Harvard college community...
...between entrepreneurs--dotcom and otherwise--and the artists, community activists and working people, many of them Latinos, who have lived there for decades. Increasingly, standard-issue low riders and banged-up Toyotas are being edged out by Volvos and SUVs. Over on Mission Street, Foreign Cinema, a limo-flanked, chichi restaurant that opened up right across the street from La Taqueria, legendary purveyor of my favorite cheap burrito, has become the latest target of neighborhood rage. And in nearby Noe Valley, the rundown Victorian duplex where I rented a two-bedroom for $600 a month sold last year...
...dinners and annual celebrations in honor of George Washington. The club's productive signature soon developed: the musical comedy with the male cast that has featured the likes of William F. Weld '66 and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Class of 1861. The social side grew to be the center of chichi life at Harvard, and soon anyone who wanted to be anyone counted Pudding membership as an existential prerequisite...
...homes of the rich and famous with wall-to-wall flamboyance and fidgety fuss; of cancer; in Oxfordshire, England. Hicks, a sworn enemy of chintz, eschewed the staid flowery prints in favor of eye-popping solids, which he boldly mingled with modern paintings and patterned carpets. Among his chichi clientele: King Fahd and royals Prince Charles and Princess Anne, who became his peers after he married Lady Pamela Mountbatten...
Students across the U.S. are about to find out if she's right. Mandatory volunteerism, once the province of chichi private academies with a runaway sense of noblesse oblige, has become the latest reform fad in public schools. Though Maryland's statewide requirement is unique, nationally almost one-fifth of students surveyed last year said they attend schools that mandate service. Even cash-strapped urban schools are joining in. In September, Chicago announced that it will demand 40 volunteer hours from its students, starting next year. Philadelphia officials have debated similar mandates, and Miami began requiring 75 hours of service...