Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style is offhand. California hip rather than Gotham sophisticate, and four-letter words stud her rap. She avoids high-fashion designer clothes, prefers casual wear such as blue jeans, pants and sweater outfits, often teamed with a crazy hat and tennis shoes. She does not own a shred of underwear -just a head...
...formula for a performance by a pop singer, it sounds - well, dubious. The kind of thing that might catch on, say, with a minor cult surrounding some blatantly hip homosexual nightclub. Which is exactly what happened to Singer Bette Midler 2½ years ago, when she billed herself as "the divine Miss M" and began doing such an act at Manhattan's Continental Baths, a gaily liberated Turkish bath that imports outside entertainment on weekends. But since then, Midler has left the Continental Baths far behind, and her brand of "trash with flash," as she identifies it, has made...
Thus might a hip Polonius summarize the frenzied rise in U.S. interest rates. Last week the biggest U.S. corporations had to pay a record-and painful-8¾% to borrow from banks.* Some banks will raise that "prime" rate further to 9% this week; it could go higher still, perhaps to 9½% in the fall. The banks in turn had to pay as much as 10.3% to get money to lend; that was the highest rate offered last week to depositors who would buy $100,000 certificates of deposit (CDs). While borrowers and lenders alike groaned, savers rejoiced...
...others shook hands to go, Wright asked: "You don't happen to have one of those paperback Constitutions that Sam Ervin uses all the time, do you?" He was referring to the blue-covered Constitutions that Ervin passes out to constituents. Edmisten pulled a copy-out of his hip pocket and handed it over. Said Wright jokingly: "It's been alleged we need one around here...
Only three years ago, the biggest and oldest family-led company in America, E.I. du Pont de Nemours of Wilmington, Del., was hip-deep in family troubles. Chairman Lammot du Pont Copeland was bogged down in his son's spectacular personal bankruptcy and other problems, and Du Font's industrial stature was sliding. So "Mots" Copeland was eased aside for Charles