Word: hipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questioner is William Thomas Wiley, 30, a graduate of San Francisco's cheerfully ticky-tacky school of funk art. For the past eight months, Wiley has been surveying the cool, hip New York City art scene, and the show at the Frumkin Gallery reflects his conclusions. Wiley finds himself impressed with "how important art is here, how it fits into New York culture." At the same time, he is irked by its high seriousness and the pretentious critical debates that rage about each new fad. "I'm both for and against the New York art scene," says Wiley...
...student at Andover described the hierarchy at Andover as once being, "jocks, jet-set (very preppy socialites), and non-entities." Now, he says, there is a third and dominant group which could be classified the "hip people." But drugs are not the trademark of the hip people, he explained. The hip people share "the love ethic...
...made the sound different. 1) The music; he's cut out Mike Bloomfield and the electric guitars, and put a drum and bass beat through the whole record that makes all the sound vaguely similar. 2) The language: he puts his songs in the country idiom (instead of the hip) by using a lot of twisted cliches, saying "whom" a lot instead of "who," and throwing awe-struck interjections to "the Lord" into the speech of his characters. 3) The stories in his songs: he's put plots with beginnings and endings and protagonists other than himself into the songs...
ULTIMATE SPINACH (MGM). Out of Boston comes what may be the Jolly Green Giant of pop music. The Ultimate Spinach mind food includes Sacrifice of the Moon, an instrumental that includes gentle wood flute and guitar interplays; Hip Death Goddess, with cool, detached vocals plus many minutes of good heavy electric instrumental; Ego Trip and Funny Freak Parade, like all the other songs, rich in imagery and imagination...
SAMUEL H. Beer, professor of Government and Democratic Committeeman for Ward 8, believes that state legislators usually do not like to deal with ward committees. "A state politician wants to have ward committees in his hip pocket; otherwise they can be a thorn in his side," Beer said, noting that ward committee-members often oppose legislation in the primaries...