Word: hipping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...record-company executives (who are mostly white) when the album started burning its way into the country's collective musical consciousness. The fine points of what Thriller might have been, and was not, seemed petty to the audiences (mostly young) who gave the record its initial push, who hip-hopped to it in clubs and break-danced to it in the streets this past summer. The message is obvious anyway: soul is for sharing, not segregating...
Donen and Producer-Co-Writer Gelbart (M*A*S*H) are, like Caine, men who know better than to do the shoddy, but they are too busy trying to prove they are hip guys, cool on the trail of the rapidly aging New Morality, to emulate his try for modest craftsmanship. It is dismaying to see them sell off comedy's right to social criticism in exchange for the chance to make soft-core porn. Perhaps that accounts for the dispirited and guilty air of a film that makes even Rio look ugly and cannot work up so much...
...addition to such basics, some veterans--Isaacs in particular--have totally mastered the art of female impersonation, from hip-away to eyelashes to throaty, sexy chuckles. In Maxine the Mermaid, Isaacs creates one of the funniest Pudding stage characters seen in recent years, and his curtain-raising number in Act II, "Femme Fatale," is the show's biggest blockbuster...
...sleepy farm town of Beaumont is about as hip as Brigadoon. Stoked by the hellfire-and-tarnation sermons of the starchy Rev. Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), the locals have outlawed dancing. Enter Ren (Kevin Bacon), a city boy with radical ideas about popular music: he likes it. Will Ren win over the Rev.'s wil lowy daughter (Lori Singer)? Will Ren and his pal Willard (Christopher Penn) beat up the town's five toughest punks in a roadside brawl? Will he be able to put the show on right here? You get plenty of time for your three...
...glassy-eyed millions of the TV generation: Saturday Night Live. In each installment, a guest host and the Not Ready for Prime Time Players (Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray et al.) teetered on the cutting edge of comedy chaos. The humor was topical, hip, manic, risky, urban and wildly uneven. It was guerrilla television and it radicalized American comedy...