Word: modishness
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...hard to understand why anyone would bother to make Smile at all-let alone with loving, modish, professional care. The movie undertakes to point out that beauty contests-in this case, the California finals of the mythical Young American Miss Pageant-are vulgar and stupid exercises that bring out the worst in everyone: sponsors, contestants, audiences. This is not exactly big news. If it were, Bert Parks would be out of the last of his jobs, since the reason that most people tune in events like the Miss America Contest is to prove their cultural superiority to the few remaining...
...Empire, a hearty fellow whose prose as well as his poetry thumped as cheerfully as a barroom song-when, that is, he wasn't spinning animal tales for children. Then, in a famous essay, The Kipling That Nobody Read, Edmund Wilson updated this naïf into a modish vision of mid-20th century tragedy...
...legislature, he is a strong supporter of liberal social legislation. Ford's father is a prominent Memphis undertaker and Ford, too, is an undertaker, who also holds a master's degree in business administration from Vanderbilt University. For the campaign, the slender Ford put away his modish clothes in favor of pinstripes and softened his sometimes tough language. Which approach he will adopt in Washington is unknown...
...writer who had won his first Emmy. They became the creative cornerstones of MTM Enterprises and the most unlikely and profitable collaboration since Kaufman and Hart.Bearded and rumpled, Brooks, 35, gives the impression of a denim bedspread on its way to the Laundromat. Burns, 39, is resolutely Beverly Hills modish. Brooks is divorced and spends his off hours at a Malibu Beach house. Burns, the married father of three, is a tennis-playing resident of suburban Mandeville Canyon...
...logical to assume that the women who are pioneering in police work at the detective level these days are likely to be rather more idiosyncratic than the average meter maid. Certainly they are more interesting than Graves' jive-talking, hip-swinging, street-smart chick-a currently modish figure in blaxploitation movies. Dickinson, to be sure, is a little less stereotyped, but her show's creators are undecided as to whether she should be den mother or kid sister to the squad room, and they really ought to come up with a characterization more novel than either of those...