Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most members of the TIME staff consider themselves reasonably hip, but writing and reporting the hippie cover presented problems. One involved clothes. To put her subjects at ease during interviews. Researcher Katie Kelly decided to disguise herself as a hippie wearing, in various combinations, faded old Nebraska Levi's, a red minidress and an unwashed London Fog raincoat. Surveying Galahad's Pad in the East Village for color picture possibilities, Andrea Svedberg had her arms ornamented hippie style with Day-Glo paints. San Francisco Bureau Chief Judson Gooding was gauche enough to wear a suit...
...Holcey Hip. The peculiar appeal of the Smothers is that they pull off these bum mots with such a deceptive air of wide-eyed innocence that the cornier the material, the louder the laughs. A more apt name for them would be the Mothers' Brothers. "We attract the kind of fans that want to mother us," says Dick, 28. "We're so college-looking and clean-cut," says Tom, 30. "The American Legion likes us and so does the left wing." And so does every wing of the younger generation. The boys have the jug-eared look...
...Rainbow Grill, high in the 70-story RCA Building. Typical of his sentimental sojourns into jazz in recent years, it created a momentary illusion that nothing much had changed. The dancers were mostly of the generation that grew up with him back when cats were hep instead of hip. The tunes were such period favorites as Don't Be That Way and Stompin' at the Savoy. Goodman's clarinet sound, although it missed some of the fiery flow of earlier years, was as limpid and nimbly melodic as ever...
Rosemary and Guy, hip young sophisticates, scoff at such superstitious notions. And soon, in fact, Guy's acting fortunes are on the rise. But then, one by one, untoward events happen: a ghastly suicide, a sudden blindness, a paralytic coma. Dark signs and otherworldly hints occur: black candles, "tannis root" or Devil's Fungus, missing articles of clothing...
...minutes later, Levi Castillo burst into the Assembly chamber and, as the clerk droned on through the list, laid two sticks of dynamite on his own desk. Then he took out a revolver, which he fired once into the floor to gain attention. Slowly he raised the revolver to hip level, aiming at the dynamite. "Ever since I was a boy," Levi Castillo remembers, "I've had this dream of causing a large crowd to leave a large chamber in a hurry." At last his dream was realized. The Deputies poured out the chamber's four doors like...