Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later, when Chris spots America, a West Indian maiden who could be Geraldine's twin is waiting for him, her hand on her hip and "Watch out" in her eyes. "What the hell you want comin' round in them ships?" she asks. "We don't wanna be discovered. You better discover your ass away from here...
...plan to purchase 565,000 acres of Florida's Big Cypress Swamp for a federal water reserve, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton and Presidential Daughter Julie Eisenhower went swamp walking-right up to the edge of an alligator hole. No alligators. So Julie slogged around happily in her borrowed hip boots. "The water felt good," she chortled. "My feet were...
Alex plays the role of the lovable lug to perfection. His appearance-a 20-in. neck atop a 6 ft. 2 in., 245-lb. body -suggests a hippo in hip pads. Puffing on a huge cigar and squinting through glasses as thick as beer mugs, he bills himself as a "sort of blown-up Cary Grant." He has been besieged with offers, including roles in a TV comedy series and a movie called The Hard Case. Does he miss football? "Sure I miss it. I guess my main regret is that I can't go up to Green...
...curious turn in the Dead's style. Tom Constantine, one of the strong forces of musical experiment, left the group. Their next albums, Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, were pleasant indulgences paralleling the post-Wood stock "back to the country" bulls being issued by the Papacy of hip AM radio and sundry rock publications. Indeed, with "Uncle John's Band", the Dead had something distressingly close to a hit. A non sequitur for many...
Richard Brautigan sounds continually like a low-key Buddy Glass oriented to Big Sur rather than New York City. The stories in this book could be entries into a hip, West Coast Buddy's journal. They both have that funny way of describing the commonplace, and they give casual gestures the liveliness of dialogue. The two narrators share the same fanciful tone and Brautigan can go far with his fancy...