Word: rigeur
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...report from NYC: the city was crawling with Harvard peeps--from the Bill Viola exhibit at the Whitney, to the Metropolitan Opera, to downtown shopping Meccas. The NYC cook kidz, clad in de rigeur black, chattered at downtown hot spot Moomba, overhearing cell phone conversation about West Coast casting, Oscar gossip and the upcoming Seventh on Sixth fashion shows in Bryant Park. As ever, the eight dollar martini called for "drinks at the bar with my American Express," as Wyclef puts...
WASHINGTON: At a breakfast in Washington last week, Mike McCurry was asked if it was de rigeur for a press secretary to lie to protect his boss. Typically, he opened with a joke: "Press secretaries cannot lie." Then he revealed the secret of success: truth was simply not his job. His term is that he is not "an original fact-finder." And if the President lied to him? "When there are prospects too horrible to contemplate, I don't contemplate them...
...when taking over University buildings and going on hunger strikes was de rigeur for anyone who claimed to work for social change, Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) weathered some hefty criticism. Criticism usually came from two warring tribes: the people who thought PBHA didn't do enough, and the people who thought it did too much. The underlying issue was the appropriateness of political activism in PBHA or, Does social service demand political activity or exclude...
...choreography was riddled with a sense of humor, from the "Jamaican Me Crazy" number with its infectious enthusiasm to the de rigeur final chorus line...
While individual expression is part of the skateboarding and aggressive skating creed, baggy jeans and T-shirts with an attitude are de rigeur...