Word: chicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fifteen." Sharp snap of gum. The spade chick looked uneasily at Billy...
...other chick said, "Do you have any records?" A blonde chicksie, too delectable for smack. Billy giggled...
...hulking, ruddy-faced Michigander with a gift for promotion, Hannah was born in Grand Rapids, the son of a Unitarian poultryman and an Irish Catholic schoolmarm. Himself an M.S.U.-trained ('23) poultry breeder, he became president of the International Baby Chick Association, supervised egg production for the NRA during the Depression. At 32, spurning an offer of $18,000 a year from a Chicago food-packing firm, he returned to M.S.U. as his alma mater's $4,500-a-year business manager. He chose wisely. By 1941, he had married the president's daughter and succeeded...
...novel's end becomes a Kafkaesque surrealism that we find frightening rather than funny. Sartre, who was a real-life friend of Vian's, is amusingly satirized as Jean-Sol Partre, the cult idol who enters packed lecture halls on elephant back, crushing his waiting fans. But when Chick, Colin's friend, sacrifices everything, including his girl-friend Alise, in order to buy Partre's work, the joke turns grisly. Chloe dies from a water-lily growing in her lungs: this is both Vian's preposterous parody of the consumptive heroines who litter romantic tradition, and a real tragedy...
Demy's hero, George Matthews (Gary Lockwood), is a 26-year-old dropout with the draft hanging over his carefully combed head. He wakes up in the morning murmuring "Love, love," much to the annoyance of his chick (Alexandra Hay), who knows that he isn't thinking of her. Even George doesn't know exactly whom he is thinking about, so he jumps into his little green sports car and tools around Los Angeles, searching for love and himself. He finds both through an exquisite Frenchwoman named Lola (Anouk Aimee) who earns her living as a "model...