Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Biden recognizes that these incidents feed the perception that he is a gabby lightweight. He is no "hothead," he insists; certain occasions warrant anger, but his temper is "measured." One friend suggests that the hip shooting comes from a "complicated mix of the emotional and the calculating." A Biden aide observes that "somewhere in him is the Irish Catholic kid struggling to show 'them' that he's as good as they...
...confined to bed for eight months while recovering from an unexpected scoliosis operation. Immobilized by a neck-to-hip cast, she studied at home with tutors provided by the school system in her area. Isolated from the group experiences of the classroom and the schoolyard, she thrived on the one-to-one tutorials and sped through her assignments...
...Starting about 20 years ago, a new generation of designers came of age in the Bay Area, formally trained but unconventional by temperament. At the same time, decoration became fashionable again, modernist doctrine loosened, and a sort of regional self-infatuation overtook the arts. Baby-boomer entrepreneurs, with their hip clothing companies, upscale shops and software firms, became prime graphic-design clients. By the early 1980s the most talented of the San Francisco designers were creating the visual equivalent of nouvelle cuisine. The result was an identifiable local style -- sunny but sophisticated, fresh, playful, elegant -- that has become widely imitated...
...Good Woman has all the nasty wit of his best known work, The Threepenny Opera. Unfortunely, Opera collaborator Kurt Weill was long gone when Brecht wrote this play, so director Serban commissioned hip New York composer Elizabath Swados to score Brecht's songs. Some of her past work like Runaways, has been pretty vile, but in Good Woman some of her curt, antimelodic songs are pretty fair substitutes for Weill. This is less laziness on Swados's part, I think, than the fact that Weill's music was the perfect accompaniment to Brecht's cynical, plebian lyrics...
...everything else is still there. The witty conversation, the social commentary (the way he tries to describe Susan's hip sports car is just hilarious) and the sweeping descriptions of the Wheaton area. Spenser fails to get into a fistfight in this one, but the overall reading is entertaining and well-paced. It is a much better story than you might get from watching Miami Vice...