Word: hipsters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...center of a circle of bright, successful friends -- a post- Beatles hipster Algonquin Table that cellularly convenes to muse and amuse. She survives the mottled curse of fame by fostering deep, intimate friendships. Her coterie ranges from her ex's 18-year-old son to a 71-year-old psychiatrist and includes director Penny Marshall, comic philosopher Albert Brooks, actor Richard Dreyfuss, musicians Don Henley and J.D. Souther, and many more...
...else's music, clothes and styles, leaving little room for their own imaginations. Mini-revivals in platform shoes, ripped jeans and urban-cowboy chic all coincide with J. Crew prep, Gumby haircuts and teased-out suburban perms. What young adults have managed to come up with is either nuevo hipster or ultra-nerd, but almost always a bland imitation of the past. "They don't even seem to know how to dress," says sociologist Hirsch, "and they're almost unschooled in how to look in different settings...
...Scott Strasser. At 35, Strasser is a thoroughgoing anomaly. His $ spiky hair and Tokyo-hipster clothing might be unremarkable in Los Angeles or New York City, but he was raised and still lives in conservative Texas. There he is director of interior architecture of the big, conventional, Houston- based architecture firm CRSS, directing a staff of 35. And he has become a leader in a courtier's discipline (Interiors magazine named him 1989 Designer of the Year) despite an aggressively impolitic style. "Corporate design," he says, "is a stupid profession that hasn't learned what it's doing wrong. Most...