Word: hipper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both leaped to prominence in the late Reagan years: Seagal as a from-nowhere star in his first movie (Above the Law), Spy as the hipper-than-thou champion of attitude journalism. Both like to make fun of short people. Both offered sleek twists on tired genres: Seagal the martial-arts movie, Spy the glossy gossip rag. Both are deeply indebted to Creative Artists Agency boss Michael Ovitz, who is Seagal's movie mentor and Spy's eternal obsession. And both have sturdy Time Warner credentials: Seagal as one of Warner Bros.' most reliable moneymakers (Hard to Kill, Under Siege...
...Harvard was a very different place back then," said Brodsky, who started working for his family's business at the age of 13. "It was more of a bohemian and hipper kind of a place...
That aging barb about the venerable Hollywood talent agency and its notoriously low profile may no longer apply. In purchasing the smaller, hipper and younger Triad agency, with 50 agents and its own show-biz clients, the Morris agency pulled off a snazzy triple play. With new talent such as screen stud Bruce Willis and hot-shot musicians Pearl Jam and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Morris instantly juices up its soft film and music divisions, raises its celebrity quotient and re-establishes its place on the top tier of Tinseltown's talent brokers, along with International Creative Management (which...
Galleries in the Square suffer from lack of exposure also because they are overshadowed by Harvard's renown museums and hipper Newbury St. galleries, artists said...
...abroad speaking slower and louder to be understood, the type is extra large and the sentences are extra short. The overall effect is of a grandmother squeezing into neon biking shorts after everyone else has moved on to long black skirts; the Saks Fifth Avenue ad Styles replaces was hipper. The section is evolving; it adds value for those who want to read it. "No one has to read the whole Sunday paper but me," says Sulzberger...