Word: modishness
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...book’s title comes from Locke’s famous belief that a baby’s mind is a “blank page” bereft of knowledge about the world. For Pinker, this utterly false notion has produced a suite of modern ills, from modish parenting methods to the architecture of the Carpenter Center...
...expeditions to the South Pole in 1911 and 1914, lining trenchcoats in 1924 and clothing British aviators in the 1930s. Beginning in the 1960s, the Burberry Check has appeared on scarves, umbrellas and luggage. Recently, the company—under new management since 1997—launched a modish marketing campaign aimed at the fashionable and impressionable youth of the world, introducing the fragrance Burberry Touch a couple of years ago. If dressing oneself in the old check pattern is not enough to satisfy diehard fans, Burberry Barbie—who sports a plaid kilt, scarf...
...sophisticated decadence of concession-era Shanghai. From articles in Vanity Fair and Arena to documentaries on Japanese television, opium smoking has become chic. It is the drug of choice for a few famous Paris fashion designers and restaurateurs. And collecting opium pipes and paraphernalia is popular among modish New Yorkers. The trendiness is fueled in part by scarcity: it takes 100 g of opium to refine 10 g of heroin. Of the 5,000 tons of opium harvested annually, 99% of it is synthesized into more lucrative and easily transported heroin by drug refiners closer to the source. Very little...
...central figure in High Art is Syd (Radha Mitchell), a newly-promoted assistant editor at a modish New York photography magazine called *Frame*. Syd is a hard worker and has a keen eye, but because her superiors have yet to fill the intern position she vacated for her editorship, she is currently working absurd hours trying to do both jobs. Her boyfriend Steve (Gabriel Mann) laments what he considers her exploitation by the *Frame* staff, but Syd, confident that her dedication will push her up through the editorial ranks, has no complaints. "I'm trying to stick...
Mott Street in Little Italy, Manhattan's newest locus of hip, is where modish factions of the young professional class gather in cafes to talk about movies starring Steve Buscemi and to chain-smoke as though it were Milan or 1956. Mott Street is, in other words, a place you might envision as fashion's capital of spartan black. On a northern tip, though, sits a tiny 1 1/2-year-old shop named Calypso, where, on any given weekend, stylish young shoppers slither past one another to get at a collection of near-sheer pastel sweaters, lacy skirts, candy-colored coats...