Word: chicly
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...line has become more mainstream (it’s being sold locally in Urban Outfitters), and his design studio, Studio Number One, has contributed to advertising campaigns for Saks Fifth Avenue and Toyota. For these disenfranchised fans, Obey is taking on the unsavory glow of “radical chic...
Margherita Boniver, an Italian Member of Parliament and longtime foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, chastised the "French radical-chic" efforts to block extradition. "The fact that Carla Bruni [helped] Petrella avoid extradition to Italy is something grave," adding there appeared to be "a sort of convergence" with the Battisti case. "It's all unprecedented," Boniver told reporters...
...Rockwell is renowned for his adult playgrounds - chic hotels, restaurants and casinos he has designed around the world. But shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, the father of two had a vision for a new playground for lower Manhattan. Construction on that site, the first permanent Imagination Playground, is set to begin this week. Instead of swings or other standard play equipment, there will be movable objects that children can use to build and tear down, thus ensuring a different experience with each trip to the figure-eight-shaped playground. (See pictures of architects building for the 21st century...
...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks—we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...
...Adieu to Alain Robbe-Grillet, 85, a founding father of the postwar nouveau roman movement who wrote the script for Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad, that ultra-chic chess game of adultery and fabulous frocks. Robbe-Grillet then channel much of his energy into filmmaking, with such kinky mystifiers as Trans-Europ Express, The Man Who Lies and the cunningly titled Progressive Slidings of Pleasure. Simon Gray, 71, wrote for the stage (where many of his tart, smart comedies were directed by Pinter) and stayed there. Fortunately, his best play, Butley, is preserved on film, along with Alan Bates...