Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mussed Hair. Along the city's most stylish street, North Michigan Avenue, the Fords were greeted by moderate-sized but enthusiastic crowds. The President stood in the open limousine, waving both hands and clasping them like a victorious prizefighter. At one point, he plunged into the crowd, shaking hands and grinning as young girls stood on tiptoe to kiss him and muss his hair. The only discordant note was sounded by several thousand Greek Americans who were demonstrating in Grant Park across the street from the V.F.W. convention in the Conrad Hilton hotel. They were protesting U.S. policy...
...understand what she sees in him - or he in her, for that matter - it is difficult to care whether he is offering true love and if so, whether it can triumph over the brutality of the Russians and the blindness of the British. Director Edwards, who can be a stylish operative, here contents him self with prettily posing Andrews (who is his wife), showing off her Diors against various pleasant beaches and European capitals. Doubtless the aim here was to make an old-fashioned adventure-romance. While the nostalgia for that almost vanished form is justifiable, the slackness of this...
...Seattle, San Diego, Houston and Washington, D.C. Each season, the Gramma Fisher Foundation * in Marshalltown, Iowa, contributes $100,000 for a new operatic production that is mounted by one of the companies, then made available in succeeding years to the others. St. Paul, for example, currently has a very stylish Manon that was introduced earlier this year in Houston. The plan is a sensible, sane method of cutting the staggering costs of opera today, and it is fortunately catching on elsewhere...
Even in so broad a musical spectrum-part nostalgia, part status quo, part innovation-the jazz rockers are a stylish group apart. That is due as much as anything to the fact that most of them-Pianists Hancock and Chick Corea, Guitarist John McLaughlin, Saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Drummer Billy Cobham-are graduates of the Miles Davis band, where the movement got off the ground back in 1970 with Davis' first all-out fusion of jazz and rock, the double LP album Bitches Brew...
...idea has a sort of grandiose simplicity: loot the 20th century for its best popular music, thread the songs together with briskly stylish "footnotes" by Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, have them sung and danced by some of the live liest talent in New York City. The result is theatrical nostalgia as it ought to be done-a delightful musical blowout...