Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...culture." They are reacting against values that have a lot to do with the lingering myth of the "frontier spirit" but little to do with modern urban society. "Our country has changed since the days of the wild, wild, west when men wore a six-gun strapped to their hip for protection," Buckley says...
...advocates are reacting against values that have a lot to do with the lingering myth of the "frontier spirit" but little to do with modern urban society. "Our country has changed since the days of the wild, wild west when a man wore a six-gun strapped to his hip for protection," one advocate said...
...collection is lively and multiform. Occasionally someone seems to balk at imagination, although nobody is short on skill, and these pieces smack of exercises. A deftly penciled sketch in one corner, for example, depicts a male nude from the rear, familiarly postured with one hand on his hip and his body's weight shifted to one foot. A canvas in variegated blue with purplish undertones, of a bedroom swathed in yellow light, reflects the dappled brush-work and impressionistic style of Monet...
Charnley began to search for materials that would require no lubrication. He first tried Teflon, but the material tended to wear badly in the hip joint. Then he made a serendipitous discovery. Although Charnley had turned away a salesman who tried to interest him in high-density polyethylene, his laboratory assistant, eager to use idle test apparatus, tried four samples of the tough plastic. The material tested so successfully that in 1962, Charnley adopted it for hip sockets...
Until Charnley, victims of advanced arthritis or injuries to the hip were often permanently crippled. Now, in the U.S. alone, many of the 15,000 patients a year who undergo the Charnley operation are not only back on their feet, but dancing...