Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Situation Hopeless--But Not Serious. Alec Guinness in a stylish British comedy. Ch. 7, 11:30 p.m. 2 hours...
Godard. The chic attitude nowadays is to be down on Godard. He wasn't actually as important, self-appointed arbiters declare, as we thought he was during the '60s. A stylish innovator, perhaps, but without content. That's probably true for an early, exuberant fool-around film like Breathless, a quick-paced sort of Bogart parody. Pierrot Le Fou is more ambitious and more complex, however, and so the revisionists had better look twice before they go about their revising...
...stylish dresser known for her well-tailored trouser suits and gowns, Mrs. Sadat is half English. Her Egyptian father and British mother met and married while he was in London studying medicine. Jehan first met Sadat on her 15th birthday when he was 30 and an army captain. They were wed after Sadat's first marriage, an arranged match with a cousin, ended...
Columbo treats his invariably rich and stylish suspects with politeness, even deference. He apologizes for taking up their valuable time. He prattles incessantly in a New York accent that seems to be coming down with a sore throat. He gee-whizzes over their luxury houses, stopping in mid-sentence to ask ingenuously what the property taxes might be on such a splendid estate, pausing to work them out in terms of his $11,000-a-year salary. His darting, jabbing gestures carve lexicons in the air. He interrupts interrogations to rummage in pockets crammed with scrappaper reminders of marketing chores...
Many Israeli soldiers joined their units after traveling either by taxi or by hitchhiking. At midweek, some of the men were still wearing half-civilian clothing. Their khaki shirts and jackets clashed sharply with their more stylish slacks and patterned socks. At villages along the road, groups of teen-agers -some of them Americans visiting Israel-had set up refreshment stands and were offering coffee to the troops...