Word: passee
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This month Zorach will receive the gold medal for sculpture from the National Institute of Arts and Letters-an award that should prompt a fresh look at a man whose perennial appeal is that he has dared to seem passe. While other sculptors have taken to the welding torch or...
Noting that public approval greets every new expenditure for the conquest of space, Rochow asked: "Aren't we actually witnessing a phenomenon which has interest, enthusiasm, which can absorb energies and masculine drive, and which could make the question of war passe and old hat?"
No More Queens. In the post-World War II heyday, when everything on television was new and attractive, pro wrestling boomed. Desperate for new acts, new gimmicks, promoters began to push such gaudy huskies as "Gorgeous George," a marcelled, peroxide blond who made the sham slaughter seem even more ridiculous...
"The hell it is," snorted Haskins. "What kind of expression is that?" shouted Corso. "Don't you know that hell is passe?"
Two wars put her in the factory; and her pay check led, inevitably, to the bar. (The pornographic murals have been replaced by flowered wall-paper.) Idealists and mothers' sons gave her the vote--and she sent Eisenhower to Korea. She invaded poetry and journalism, industry and politics, legal courts...