Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though it was always a little hard to pin down, hip was a notion roomy enough to describe flower children in tie-dye as well as bikers in black leather, the impeccable cool of John Coltrane's sax as well as the jerky forward thrust of Abbie Hoffman. All of it was admissible on the principle that it represented a heartfelt rejection of the mainstream. The mainstream was understood to be all-powerful and wrong about everything: politics, art, religion, sex, drugs and music. It was deaf to the beat, blind to the truth and dressed by Penney...
...despite all efforts, the mood was a little shaky. Granted, at the big party a few weeks earlier for some liquor company, there were mud-wrestling drag queens. (No kidding.) But the problem that night didn't seem to be any lack of diversions. The very notion of 10 years on the downtown scene had led to melancholy reflections about what hip has come to. There was grumbling in the room along the lines of been-there/done-that. And if talk-show hostesses and prime-time starlets are hip -- Ricki Lake? Shannen Doherty? -- then what exactly can hip still mean...
...Some of them seemed serenely beautiful, showing small reddish blossoms dotting the planet's darker surface. The information that one of these was a fireball larger than the earth could not be conveyed visually. It had to be explained in words, and even then the mind resisted the preposterous notion that that was what it had seen...
...Adams: I don't believe that reflects a sensible notion because both of those complex situations ((in South Africa and the Middle East)) came into public prominence after years of private and presumably secret deliberations. We have deep-rooted conflict here, the legacy of some hundreds of years. The last year has seen a remarkable turnaround, but it's important that what we achieve in the end is lasting and has a solid foundation...
...perennial suggestion of a Republican split; there will be no Republican split. The difficulty is caused by the fact that until we kick-started this process there was no talk about a peace settlement. We had to bring the British government reluctantly around to the notion of looking for a new arrangement. We have to make sure we have a solid foundation; there are elements of the Downing Street Declaration, a joint peace plan presented by Prime Ministers John Major of Britain and Albert Reynolds of Ireland in December 1993, that are not a solid foundation...