Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country-boy conscience of the '20s and early '30s, who insisted that "there is no credit in being a comedian when you have the whole government working for you," could be biting, but most of the time he was jovially rustic where Sahl is urban and hip. Rogers was lovable, and even his fans do not claim that quality for Sahl. But in his own way, Sahl has taken his place on the center line of the Ward-Dooley-Rogers tradition. The Depression and war years produced only minor political satire. Among comedians, Bob Hope -who still typifies...
Abroad, British beauties, trim of limb, firm of bosom and svelte of hip, have long been in demand - Paris' Folies-Bergere has padded out its chorus with a dozen British imports. As one chauvinistic British lady editor argued: "The Swedes are too pallid, the Spanish girls have long, forbidding noses, and Americans have bread-crumb skins." At home, too, British figures are now coming out from under wraps, as bathing suits, including bikinis, are happily adopted as something to be seen in out of the water...
...hip man, before you jabber about others...
...smelled, as always, of strong tobacco and stronger coffee. Most of the prostitutes and pimps that used to degrade the city were gone, cleaned out by Fidel Castro's moralistic revolution. In eastern Santiago, teen-agers danced in the streets to the latest Afro-Cuban rhythm, a hip-buster called the pachanca...
...story is set in San Francisco, the holy city of hip, and describes how a young cube (George Peppard), who lives with his ever-loving mother and writes nothing novels, sees something sweet where the beat meet to eat. In the book she is a pretty Negro, but in the film she is Leslie Caron. "I want every bit of life," he announces. So they go to her pad and really make the scene, and in the morning he drives her over to see her analyst. Soon they are sharing the same toothbrush, but he wants to write...