Word: voguish
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...around a disused beach house, then female hands and pensive, pained faces. That style, an emblem of high seriousness, persists throughout a film one will remember mainly for its look: actors grouped in self-consciously arresting ways, costumes and sets done up in grays and beiges, the lighting (by voguish Cinematographer Gordon Willis) low-keyed and "textural...
...home, a sixth-floor Montmartre walkup she shares with her photographer husband (they have no children). Bretécher usually cannot face her drawing board and swivel-top piano stool until the day the strip is due. As comely as her characters are homely, she patronizes the same voguish boutiques and is occasionally oppressed by the same fashionable insecurities as those she parodies. Except one. "The seriousness and dogmatism of the feminist movement have become appalling," says Bretécher. The dogma that appalled her most when she began to sour on the movement was a preoccupation with rape. Says...
...seemed, were interested in high-quality goods and were less inclined than they once were to hunt for bargains. This year's most popular items included sportswear, fashion accessories and cosmetics, along with newfangled small appliances like peanut-butter makers and electric hot-dog grillers and such voguish gimmicks as mood rings and "pet rocks." Only "intimate apparel" clearly fell shy of merchants' expectations...
Shostakovich also indulges in the voguish fad of musical collage in which a new work is created partly by grafting together chunks of other composers' music. The first movement had barely begun last week when, to the chuckles of the audience, out trumpeted the clarion call from Rossini's William Tell Overture (the Lone Ranger's theme in bygone days). In the lugubrious second movement came some wintry wood wind chords right out of Debussy's Jeux...
Living in the future places quite a burden on language. For some years intellectuals have sought a vocabulary to describe a society that has, in its own mind, passed outside familiar landmarks into unexplored realities. For a time, as the quarterly the Public Interest observes, the voguish literary modifier was "beyond"-beyond tragedy, beyond ideology, beyond capitalism...