Word: hipsters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cover of Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel's 1994 memoir of her struggle with depression, the author, then 26, posed strung out and exposing her midriff. The book sold well and established Wurtzel as a hipster social critic even though it dealt entirely with the subject of herself. Now, looking more self-possessed, Wurtzel graces the cover of her second book topless and giving the finger. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (Doubleday; 434 pages; $23.95) is, more or less, a meandering lamentation on the fate of irrepressible women, those too angry, too tormented, too selfish--those who, say, would prefer...
...BERLITZ FOR SQUARES Readers baffled by hipster lingo, whether it be Hollywood tough-guy speak or Haight-Ashbury hippie cant, know they can count on TIME for a translation...
...this couch does not come from its titanic size. Instead, small liquor cabinets, discretely hidden in the backrest, have generated the couch's fame among students. One compartment in the center even has a section that rotates around to reveal its contents. From an interior design perspective, this hipster davenport virtually eliminates any need for further decor. In fact, the reversible cushions with velvety red on one side and an embroidered floral pattern on the other give the roommates added decorative choice...
...fantasies are shaped not only by the comforts of the cars but by their sheer tonnage as well. The organization man of the 1950s might have been satisfied with a workadaddy DeSoto; in the 1970s the aspiring hipster could relieve his mid-life crisis with an Italian sports car the size of a Shriner go-cart. Affluent Americans of the 1990s--so responsible at home, so productive in the workplace--want a car designed for war. With its four-wheel drive and tons of torque and booster-rocket horsepower, today's sports-utility vehicle would have come in handy...
...installation, create spectacular mental images of their creators. These implied personas may or may not be contiguous with the artists themselves, just as we might recognize the space between the author and narrator of a novel or poem. Rhoades' Uno Momento, for example, calls to mind a funky urban hipster who empties out his over-filled garage to host a dance party complete with pulsing music and flashing lights. In Chris Burden's Pizza City, a room filled with tables supporting a bizarre urban sprawl suggests an overzealous collector of model train sets and holiday porcelain villages from mail-order...