Word: hipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chute at Calgary. Alta.. the brindled bull with a big O branded on his left hip stood placidly while the long-legged cowpoke settled gingerly on his back. Benny Reynolds, professional rodeo's All-Around Champion, was frankly worried: "I couldn't believe that anything standing that gentle would buck enough to impress the judges." Then the gate swung open, and Reynolds learned better. Hoofs pounding, the old bull charged wildly into the arena, spun dizzily to his left, then suddenly reversed himself and spun to his right-and Cowboy Reynolds hit the dirt with a thump...
...Cole; it's filled his head up with a set of allusions it will take him ten years to forget. But, pedantry aside, Bacchus and his father Silenus are two really engaging comic characters you won't forget: Bacchus (who is crowned with myrtle, but wears shades and is hip) is William Keough, who is almost as good as Allan Mandel, the drunken old God who gives imitations of Mars trapped in the net at parties, and who chases sea nymphs. At the play's end, Midas--a tragically wiser king--is standing dolefully orating about life and aspirations...
...Moscow University jets call their girls (after the heroine in antediluvian Tarzan movies that reached Russia after World War II), are discovering eye shadow, generally paint their nails; they most frequently sport bouffant or Bardot hairdos, though Audrey Hepburn cuts ($1.50) and permanents ($6) are gaining in popularity. Hip guys, or firmennye (literally, foreign firms), go for white shirts and solid ties from France; but hard-to-get button-down shirts and striped ties from the U.S. Ivy League are the most. Bell-bottom trousers, longtime mark of Soviet orthodoxy, are worn only by servicemen, hayseeds, and Nikita Khrushchev...
Russia's hip generation proclaims its ' independence with a language all its own. For chuvaki, or cool kids, slang also serves a highly practical purpose: it is incomprehensible to parents who may be listening in. To Russian teenagers, flesh-royal (from royal flush) means "the most"; pravilny (literally, proper) is "square...
...island, a naval base in the River Plate between Argentina and Uruguay, was used as a prison by armed-forces brass who overthrew liberal President Hipólito Irigoyen in 1930 and then Vice President...