Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modest about it, True Stories is a divine comedy for the '80s, with Narrator Byrne acting as a hip-nerd Virgil to the moviegoer's Dante in this travelogue of the surreal landscape called Virgil, Texas. It also represents the first big-screen flowering of the decade's dominant hip sensibility. Like Letterman with his "Small-Town News" and "Stupid Pet Tricks," Byrne is fascinated by the seemingly banal. Like Lynch's Blue Velvet, True Stories rides the subterranean currents of bizarre behavior that bubble under Smalltown, U.S.A. "It's a strange world, isn't it?" the characters in Blue...
NEWSWEEK HASN'T done a cover story on drugs for a while now, so the drug hysteria of this past summer must be fading. You would think that politicians, who are supposed to be hip to the mood of the people, would know this. As election day approaches, however, many candidates for public office around the country have focused on drugs as they grope for something--anything--on which they can take a strong stand and win the affections of the electorate...
...headed back to Back to the Future? Yes, but with a sweeter, slower spin on the time machine. For while Robert Zemeckis' box-office champ of 1985 was a hip '80s teenager's look at his funny parents back in the '50s, Peggy Sue (whose script was written long before Future's release) is a panorama of the same terrain as seen by an adult full of remembrance and regret. The teen traveler played by Michael J. Fox was hurled back to a time he knew only from the decade's recycled pop culture. Peggy Sue's trip is spookier...
...California journalist, reports that her relationship with an "Anglo from Berkeley" used to undergo social duress and some physical stress when the couple hit the dance floor. Then the merengue craze blew in from back East. "I tell him, 'All you have to do is march and move your hips,' " Navarro says. "If there's one dance that Anglos can get into, merengue is it." In New York City, merengue is footing aside other variations of Latin dance music and is busting out of the Spanish clubs into slicker venues. Mayor Edward Koch showed up at a merengue concert earlier...
...uncommon for pagers to wash up onshore," concedes Ann Director of the Telocator Network of America, the Washington trade association that represents radio common carriers. Nor is it that unusual for beepers to be found in schools among both suspect students and those who are merely trying to be hip. Says George Vaughn, chairman of the Detroit school board's safety and security commission: "If a kid is wearing a beeper, that's supposed to mean that he knows what time it is, that he knows what's going...