Word: chicness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ROUND-THE-WORLD SNACK ATTACK A small-town firm sells toothsome cowboy chic...
...that's the point. Thanks to Hollywood westerns, cowboy chic has worldwide appeal; John Wayne is the very image of the American to many Asians and Europeans. And U.S. beef has a reputation in many overseas markets for premium quality. So overseas buyers went looking for Link, rather than Link for them...
...idiosyncratic universe of "Scud" is generated out of a bizarre fusion of selected elements of the popular culture of the last decade or so: action movies, popular music, noir films, video games, Dungeons & Dragons, Japanese robot cartoons. The resonances evoke the increasingly trendy ideas of a sort of "geek chic," based on the artifacts of mainstream male teenage culture of the 1980s and early 90s, overlaid with a technophilic edge: it's a world born out of John Woo movies, computer hacking and the fandom of comic books themselves. It's a universe in which attitude is everything...
VIRTUAL SPA: FROM GEEK TO CHIC...
From Stuyvesant High School in New York to Harvard, Oni and Uche cultivated the art of two-way speech, their dialogue a one act play performed by two chic characters with soft brown curls and bubbling voices...