Word: modishness
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Sometimes looters were let go with a warning. One experienced pair of 26-year-old cops, with modish long hair and sideburns, spun around Bedford-Stuyvesant in a battered 1970 Dodge painted to look like a gypsy taxi. They spied a young boy carrying a big box. The frightened kid dropped the carton, and glass tinkled. "What's in the box, Johnny?" asked one of the policemen. ''Booze, man, liquor," replied the kid. "Where'd you get it, Johnny?" "I bought it, man, paid money for it." The cop peered into the box and saw the markings of a newly...
...disremembered now as a spoiled rich boy who gave good parties and wrote bad poetry. He worked very hard at literature, after he discovered it, and raised the level of his poems from wretched to mediocre. But he had no gift for language, and he was trapped in the modish but sterile conviction that if he clothed his mind in the rags of madness, he would become a seer...
...troop movements have spread the disease, demands for inoculation, legal or not, have increased. Says Hannah Winthrop, wife of Natural Philosophy Professor John Winthrop of Harvard: "The reigning subject is the small pox. Men, women and children eagerly crowding to inoculate is I think as modish as running away from the troops of a barbarous George was last year...
...suspenseful silence of their descent on the wicked ones is impossible to deny. The concluding shootout, in which the police and the army bumble up just in time to help, is also nicely handled, bloodshed and death being kept to a minimum instead of being dwelt upon in the modish manner...
Tharp has already been called a number of things: the Busby Berkeley of the '70s, a modern Nijinska, a female Balanchine. She has also been put down as modish, cute, instantly disposable-a Bette Midler of dance. "I just don't think ballet is as narrow as many people do," says Tharp. An unabashed eclectic, she does not hesitate to combine a Las Vegas chorine's high kick-or a baseball pitcher's windup-with a classic ballet pas. The result eludes stylistic categorizing, yet remains instantly recognizable as Tharp choreography...