Word: stirrer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that period. For me, and apparently for many people in the audience, it's The Way We Were of the '60s." As the decade and the show progress, girl groups give way to woman singers, coy jingles to wham- bam sexuality. Says Pattie Darcy, 30, a blond soul stirrer whose repertoire embraces Gore and Franklin: "It shows women letting their hair down, washing the Aqua Net out, giving up their skintight skirts and high heels...
...would accuse Tom Wolfe of lacking either. And so, in he goes, promising to make sense of the past few decades of American architectural taste with a short book, published this month, titled From Bauhaus to Our House (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 143 pages, $10.95). Wolfe has talent as a stirrer, but his text bears out John Stuart Mill's remark that "the second-rate superior minds of a cultivated age .. . are usually in exaggerated opposition against its spirit...
...power broker in the music world, albeit a rather puckish, cherubic one. "I've never been able to live in a cocoon," he says. "I have a long buttinsky nose." In Yiddish-one of the six languages he either speaks or understands -the expression is a kochleffl (a stirrer-up of the pot). Even his relaxations are strenuous. Says Leonard Bernstein: "You should play tennis with him some time. My God, the force, the velocity of those balls! He's a bull out there...