Word: hipping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bones about it. Andrew Wyeth's realism has never been more clinical. Four years ago, he decided to celebrate his wife's 60th birthday by giving her a self-portrait. "I had just had a hip operation," he says, "and got interested in X rays." He ordered up one of his head, to go with the others provided by doctors. The resulting painting, unveiled to the public in the current issue of Connoisseur, shows the essential Wyeth gazing out to sea, clad in a naval jacket from the War of 1812. "I like skeletons," avers Wyeth, 67. "They're more...
Above all, you are there much more to absorb than to emit. Absorb the riches and inaximize the character. Everyone is assimilating your dynamic music, hip language, new perspectives: your culture, Do not be afraid to ingest a quantum of James Russell Lowell, John F. Kennedy, or An Wang without fear of losing your identity. Engage in endless positive dialogue both with those whom you wish to shape and those by whom you wish to be molded...
...between '60s idiom ("flip out," "bummer") and mild profanity, tossing away irreverent asides like empty beer cans. Hyperbole comes naturally, and repeatedly: to the analysts in Detroit, he said Chrysler's admittedly successful mini-van is "the hottest new product . . . in your lifetimes." Says Douglas Fraser: "I'm a hip shooter. I'll admit it. But Lee, Lee is a hip shooter deluxe...
...Bangkok contains the unlikely couplet "Tea, girls--warm and sweet--warm, sweet/ Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite") with the blistering bitterness of Evita. Andersson and Ulvaeus' score ransacks melodic styles from plainsong to Puccini to Gilbert and Sullivan to Richard Rodgers to Phil Spector to hip-hop, in a rock- symphonic synthesis ripe with sophistication and hummable tunes. The Shubert Organization's Bernard Jacobs, a man not easily given to rapture, says, "Very few scores prior to production have excited me as much as this one. None, in fact, since My Fair Lady...
...most popular one goes: "hip za zoo za chik-a room ba zoo F. Skiddy Von Stade mister Fu (clap) Man (clap) Chu (clap, clap) teddy roo teddy ra teddy ruddy duddy fuddy duddy sis boom ba Harvard Harvard...