Word: unchic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hamptons, the working part of Hillary's working vacation will be this week, when she retreats to the Finger Lakes, where voters who don't use summer as a verb are known to congregate. For months, Hillary debated whether she should spend her entire vacation upstate and unchic to convince Empire State voters that she's no carpetbagger. Remember how former adviser Dick Morris persuaded the pair four years ago to give up their beloved Vineyard because polling found it insufficiently American? Enough with the sailboats and James Taylor crooning You've Got a Friend, he told them. The swing...
...urgent Hollywood news about Hunt. Yes, she's now a big star, winner of Emmy, Golden Globe and MTV Movie awards. But on the evidence, she is also a caring, clever person who loves her folks and her shaggy Samoyed dog Johnny, belongs to no cult, lives in the unchic San Fernando Valley, drives a boring black Volvo sedan, loves opera, listens to the dictates of her conscience, hears the ticking of her biological clock, protects her privacy as you would if you were famous and shrugs off her exhausting TV-and-movie workload--she made As Good...
...Stringfield, 24, works at a New York City publishing house, lives in the trendy East Village and moonlights on the side, typing for Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. But as she sits in a New York restaurant, dressed in black and adjusting her tortoiseshell glasses, she says she often feels unchic around her friends. She is single, while most of them are in serious relationships. Her apartment is in the expected dishabille, while their cupboards are filled with martini and highball glasses, their furniture is well selected, and their culinary skills are often on display. "They have all the accoutrements...
...argue that this is postmodernism for the masses or that it represents the ultimate in cynicism, depending on how forgiving your mood is when you encounter something like Mission: Impossible. But old-fashioned narrative connection, unchic though it may be, is not to be sneezed at. For it is out of those little throwaway scenes where people hint at loves, hates, beliefs, disbeliefs, that connections between audience and movie--what Hollywood's wise old hacks call "rooting interest"--arises...