Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wait for their "connection" and the heroin he will bring. They numb the hall with torpor, draw beads on the audience with four-letter words, pick their eyes, ears, nails and noses, and squeeze the "green stuff" out of a boil on one man's neck. They trade hip remarks: "I don't have any marijuana, but how quaint of you to ask." Says a Negro junky: "We live in a white society. Did you ever see black snow?" Another addict springs upstage smelling a fix. "Who said snow?" From time to time, a jazz combo breaks into...
...year-old on the playground of P.S. 91 back in The Bronx, Schayes was so embarrassed by his 6-ft. height that he adopted the driving, set-shooting style of his hip-high teammates. Even after New York University and twelve years with the Nats, Schayes is still a big man playing a small man's game. If left alone, he will toss an old-fashioned two-handed set that soars so high it is dubbed "the rainmaker"; if crowded, he will knock anyone into the seats who gets in his way as he drives for the layup...
...Dragonfly Look." It accented huge, winglike sleeves and a wandering waistline. Designer Ceil Chapman's funnel-sleeved line highlighted the "pyramid waist," high in front and low in back. Designers Norman Norell and James Galanos achieved the long-torso effect by dropping the waistline well down to the hip. Designers expect that the wandering waistline will make women's figures look slimmer. Manufacturers expect that it will fatten retail-sales figures, which now top $10 billion a year for women's wear...
...right as soon as I get on the bus." Two or three minutes later, the young man boarded No. 8 bus, a cream and blue double-decker carrying at least 50 people. He was about 5 ft. 9 in., was in his early twenties, and was wearing a brown, hip-length duffel coat. Dazed, he said nothing when the conductor asked him his destination, silently handed over sixpence and climbed to the upper deck. At one point he was seen talking to two other men. Somewhere in the slummy Ladyswood district, all three got off. Bus No. 8 went...
...Rinus, Piglet and Harry the Greyhound, and madams like Mad Margareta, 58, who employs 30 girls in one house bordering a canal and owns five other brothels. "She is the capitalist of the district," said the police. The pimps and madams were accused of accepting hippen money (hip is Dutch slang for whore...