Word: chicly
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...there are those in Boylston--including some wearing the funkiest outfits--who deny the grad students' tendencies towards the tres tres chic. One new staff member who was wearing an overdyed denim dress and Western-style turquoise jewelry says she has "no general sense" of the uniqueness of a Romance Language fashion...
...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 blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic scripts so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra if you can hack...
...Summer of Love. But the twentysomething generation has yet to make a substantial cultural statement. People in their 20s have been handed down everyone else's music, clothes and styles, leaving little room for their own imaginations. Mini-revivals in platform shoes, ripped jeans and urban-cowboy chic all coincide with J. Crew prep, Gumby haircuts and teased-out suburban perms. What young adults have managed to come up with is either nuevo hipster or ultra-nerd, but almost always a bland imitation of the past. "They don't even seem to know how to dress," says sociologist Hirsch...
Roaming through the high life of Munich or standing insouciantly beside its spired city hall, the man known as Leo is king of the social jungle. The TV commentator on the Bavarian capital's Schickeria -- the chic and shallow set -- is brought to life twice a month on the ARD network by ANDREAS IK, 37, a onetime psychology student. Life's a peep show for Lukoschik, and his unorthodox interviews with the rich and notorious -- he once sat on a white stallion to interview a party girl bathing in mare's milk -- attract millions of viewers. Not to mention voyeurs...
Other, equally ambitious -- and more than likely passing -- trends are on the horizon. "The newest form of chic," says Hartl, "is to learn things other people don't know -- to actually read a book, for instance." That may also be short-lived because as good as it is, contemporary German life is hardly restful or contemplative. "We're still trying to define ourselves," says Schmidt. "Even in leisure we're not particularly at ease." God, in other words, has not moved to Germany...