Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Russian officials have tried to counter charges of hip shooting by Soviet pilots by insisting that the 707 had taken evasive action "for more than two hours" before it was forced down. Meanwhile, Korean Air Lines announced that henceforth only new DC-10 jumbo jets would be used on the Seoul-Paris run. The DC-10 is equipped with a sophisticated inertial navigation system that is almost foolproof...
First position first. Place heels together and splay the feet until they point in opposite directions. Fine, but keep those legs touching, no bowing at the knees! In passing, note the ripples of protest that exfoliate up from the ankles through knees to outer thighs, the pebbly grind of hip sockets trying to accommodate swiveling joints. Good. Tendons, sinews, muscles and bones should now unite in sending an urgent message to the brain. Ouch! Wait a nanosecond for the translation. Here it comes: "Cut it out, will you? People were not built to stand this way. " Disregard this perfectly valid...
...pains, Cowley recalls, "I was . . . excoriated in The Daily Worker and caricatured in The New Masses (as a soldier with a whisky flask in his hip pocket and a chamberpot on his head, offering a fascist salute to J.P. Morgan...
...Erica is a thirty-five year old woman on the loose for the first time. She is lonely yes, but we are never convinced of it, despite the masterfully acted crying scenes with the psychiatrist and the volatile hatred of her former husband. After all, she is a beautiful, hip woman in New York and there are many, many eager men on the prowl. She accepts it, after an intermittent period of abstination, and considers it an adventure. We watch her fall into lust, fall into love and yet bounce out of it all without dependence of the comfortable pattern...
...Suddenly I found myself a pop idol... In high school, I had already experienced being underrated for my lack of superficial hipness... I always tried to follow my own guiding light and yet people's perceptions of me swung from being totally unhip to being awesomely hip...