Word: hipped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have evaporated; the bar empties "early," around 1 a.m. Commuters on the Long Island Rail Road are buying a lot less liquor. Trendies at Sage's restaurant in Chicago interface over watermelon coolers. Everyone is still drinking white wine, according to Michael Roberts, chef and partner of Trumps, the hip West Hollywood bistro. "It's not nearly as interesting as red," says he. "It has a lot less personality. I guess most people have less personality...
Beginning this fall, Blue Cross subscribers in Columbia, Md., may be able to carry copies of their entire medical histories--X rays, ECGs, vaccination records and all--in their hip pockets. Up to 800 pages of such information, including a digitized personal photograph and explanation of insurance coverage, will fit on a credit card-size "LifeCard." Last week Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Maryland announced plans to introduce the laser-encoded card in Columbia and, if all goes well, distribute it throughout the state by 1986. Ultimately they hope to market the LifeCard to insurers around the country. Says Blue Cross...
...well-orchestrated raid by local police, the FBI and other federal agents netted a fearsome arsenal of weapons, ranging from UZI submachine guns to antitank weapons. Most of the bikers surrendered quietly, but in Connecticut a state trooper was shot in the hip by a suspect. The eleven-state offensive was the culmination of a three-year undercover operation dubbed Roughrider, part of a larger effort by Washington to snuff out new and unorthodox forms of organized crime. Authorities confiscated $2 million worth of illegal drugs during their investigation, including methamphetamines, cocaine and LSD. A similar multistate raid in February...
...specializing in cards that appeal to women. A sample message: "A woman in the White House would feel right at home . . . She already knows how to clean up the mess men have made." Maine Line even has a few cards that could be used by homosexuals. One says, "Hip hip hooray, I'm glad...
...culture, pro wrestling in its latest guise is like a trip to hog heaven. And the crowd is a big part of the show: part upscale, part down-home. Tuxedoed yuppies mix gingerly with the + rip-his-eyes-out! regulars. Andy Warhol shows up to pronounce, "It's hip. It's exciting. It's America." Gloria Steinem stops by to snort, of woman- mauling Roddy Piper, "He certainly is unfit to wear a skirt." Geraldine Ferraro apostrophizes, "Roddy Piper, why don't you come out and fight like a man?" Meanwhile, each month at the Garden, 20,000 souls...