Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bargain even at a higher price. The value of a 1965 set is expected to jump to $8 as soon as it hits the open market. And as a speculative investment, coins can hardly be beat: a 1950 U.S. proof set, which originally cost $2.10, is now worth a cool...
...pantomimic cliché that turns up endlessly is the in-place step-slide, in which a character appears to be trekking across a tundra of coagulated syrup. Considerably fresher, though not terribly pertinent, is the occasional very cool jazz accompaniment that suggests that all attempts to immunize Iron Curtain countries from the music of the decadent West have failed...
...begins with an abrasively effective encounter between two ex-schoolmates who loathe each other. One is a Roman Catholic cardinal (Eric Berry), not remotely a lamb of God but one of the fatted kine of the clerical Establishment. The other is a lawyer (William Hutt), a man of cool, reptilian venom with a hint of Mephistopheles in his brief beard and black-magical manner. They goad each other with insults, and the cardinal muses malevolently on how the lawyer got his school nickname, "Hyena." "Did we not discover about the hyena that it was a most resourceful scavenger? . . . that...
...gain recognition as the heyday of the abstract expressionists passed. In contrast to the abstract expressionists' frenzy of free-swinging brushstrokes, Morris Louis, who died suddenly two years ago at the age of 50, turned out paintings in which any trace of imagery or personality disappeared into cool, lush fields of color. With his sherbet-soft spectrum, Louis made floral-petal shapes and stripes like awnings that left yawning, bare canvas between them...
Anyone who reads Esquire or the Times Sunday magazine knows why Harvard types go to Bogey movies at this time of year--to identify with cool, with toughness, with everything exam period manages so completely to discourage. But there's really less to it than that: Bogey lets us forget how to think...