Word: cools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didactic starkness of the idealized body is always softened by its atmospheric envelope. It is the action of light, more than any other first impression, that one remembers from Veronese's Venus and Adonis, for example, with its rosy flesh and red tunic perfectly set against the cool, remote blue-greens of forest...
...motto on the bas-relief, "Better the follower than the forerunner," is a manifesto of conservatism. Yet what counts visually is the brocaded red figure, glowing with arrested vitality against the gray ground of the past. Moroni did not overplay the tension between this expansive youthful red and the cool stasis of his drawing; he did not need...
...Government version) and the antichic chic have obvious attractions. Robin Figaro, 26, a Chicago computer operator, bought her camouflage jumpsuit "because I like to be noticed." She adds, "I always tell people that my Army jacket was worn in Viet Nam. I think that is pretty cool...
Some parents find it less cool that their children are obsessed with war-related clothing. But most consider the fad relatively harmless. For youngsters, moreover, the protective coloring can have its uses. Phyllis Dixon, of Bob's Army Surplus in Raleigh, recalls one mother who came home to find her entire neighborhood dressed in camouflage. Says Dixon: "She couldn't find her own kid because they all looked alike." -By Richard Zoglin. Reported by Carol Fletcher/Chicago and Stanley W. Robblns/Atlanta
...tropical gentleman." and there is a neat kind of hipster fitness to the description. Although he makes periodic pilgrimages to Miami for sunshine and real Cuban black beans, he has himself brought more than a measure of musical heat to his own chilly adopted city, and to a very cool scene. -By Jay Cocks. Reported by Mary Ann French/New York