Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lyrics caused Ebony to pronounce him "a hip Negro folk poet" Lorraine (A Raisin in the Sun) Hansberry calls him "a startling genius." But the 150-odd songs he has written mostly dote on the city's familiar figures, black and white alike, and on private themes of wonder and frailty. "Emotion has to be the heart of the song,"Brown says. "You make the people feel; they make themselves think." Expression of Hope. Ardent and boyish at 35, Brown grew up on Chicago's South Side. He attended three colleges without success, finally took a halfhearted fling...
...while a real, live critic with a political resilience is to be celebrated as such, his success rests on the funny universality of his hip urban characters. Surely they seem a trifle more familiar if you come from New York City, but no-one can miss the essence of humor and truth in Bernard's monologue...
...Mark Lane raised the question of Carlino's impartiality after Warren C. Adams, a prospective investor, quoted Lancer officials as saying they had Carlino "in our hip pocket." Adams testified to this under oath, and Carlino admitted that his law firm received $5,000 from Lancer while he personally received other fees in his role as director. But, the accused Speaker claimed, though he was still director of the construction firm when he guided the bill past the Assembly, he had already given notice of his intention to resign. By phone. "I neglected to send that letter," Carlino sighed...
...Shopmobile will soon be rolling to the rescue. Built for the McCrory Corp., which controls a nationwide empire of retail stores including Lerner Stores, Economy Auto Supply and 600 five and tens, this 1962 version of the old country peddler looks like a city bus with show windows, has hip-wide aisles and every available inch of interior wall space festooned with hardware, notions, toilet items, toys. It will also carry a catalogue from which bulkier merchandise may be ordered for delivery next time the Shopmobile comes around. The first Shopmobile will go into action this week in Orlando...
...directorial baton-and fell flat on his face. Too Late Blues is a routine, B-flat movie musical in which Cassavetes can seriously claim success in only one respect: the picture will not make money. To begin with, it constitutes a tired tract for the hysterical cult of hip that preaches salvation through syncopation. The plot, moreover, is a canned arrangement played to death in a dozen previous pictures of this sort: progressive jazzbo (Bobby Darin) goes commercial; loses art, loses heart, loses girl (Stella Stevens); but in the reprise he straightens out and flies right. The script...