Word: modishly
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...Meanwhile, the more glittering versions of modish androgyny continue to reflect what we does in fantasy. Many of us seem to feel that the most erotic condition of all could not be that of any man or woman, or of any child, or of a human being with two sexes, but that of a very young and effeminate male angel...Such a being may give and take a guiltless delight, wield limitless sexual power without sexual politics, feel all the pleasures of sex with none of the personal risks, can never grow up, never get wise, and never grow...
...athletes in Chariots of Fire jogged along the beach to its inspirited pulse, and Jennifer Beals went head over heels for its driving beat in Flashdance. Rock groups love its modish, high-tech tones, and jazzmen such as Oscar Peterson and Herbie Hancock have found its versatility irresistible. Laurie Anderson, the avant-garde performance artist, colored her United States, PartsI-IV with its plaintive, other-worldly resonance, and its dark bass notes lurk menacingly in the minimalist scores of Composer Philip Glass...
...independent survey, is a male college graduate between 25 and 34 who earns $33,000 in a managerial or professional job. In addition to fiction and some semiserious journalism, the magazine provides advice on trendy places to live (Santa Fe, for women and scenery), chic collectibles (signed handcrafted furniture), modish cookery and backpacking...
...friends were often famous, like Dorothy Thompson and Clare Boothe Luce. As she recalls life with the smart set, Hobson falls into a modish, woman's magazine tone in which even problems sound like boons. In 1942 her idea of dire indebtedness was owing rent to the Vincent Astor offices for her East Side apartment and a clothing tab to Bergdorf s. For all her social concern, political events are sometimes invoked as if they were backdrops for her personal dramas, as in a rendezvous with Ingersoll: "When he arrived, my rehearsed words went out the window...
...where the Middle Ages are less modish than in Europe, the book's popularity depends on how much medieval esoterica readers are willing to slog through to reach the heart of the story. For Eco's novel, fluidly translated by William Weaver, is not only an entertaining narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327. It is also a chronicle of the 14th century's religious wars, a history of monastic orders and a compendium of heretical movements. All of this is recounted in the language of theological disputation, Scholastic discourse and-caveat lector-Latin...