Word: hipped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radio can be an art--you have to be just hip enough, but not too hip, or else people don't understand. You have to find the threshhold and hang there, at the edge," he said...
This unsettling premise is set up in the opening minutes of, oddly enough, a comedy, the first noteworthy new play of the Broadway season, which officially began in May. Burn This starts out as a sly sketch of the way we live now, making fun equally of hip characters onstage and of the dead roommate's unseen blue-collar family. Then the show metamorphoses into a scary collision between those two cultures. Finally it becomes a romance between the elegant choreographer and the dead man's explosive, disturbing older brother -- a sexually charged clash of classes reminiscent of It Happened...
...took a nip off my hip flask and pondered that. "Well, at least he's talking," I said...
...fine thing, but this motley bunch of outcasts replace the materialism and hypocrisy of their bourgeois upbringing with complete apathy--their lives are as messy as their house. Lowenstein wants to be daring by eliminating any entertaining conventions of movie-making and we're supposed to be hip enough not to care. But if the stream of people beating a retreat out of the theatre was any evidence, not caring means not staying...
...from 339 in 1981. Three New York City pedestrians were killed by cyclists in 1986, while nine bikers were killed by motorists. "They are like roaches," complains Anita Sockol, who was crossing Lexington Avenue in June when she was floored by a speeding cyclist. She suffered a broken hip and wrist, and now limps. "They come at you from all sides," she adds...