Word: heps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...memory of the love lingers and in times of quiet if I really concentrate I can conjure up those feelings again. I've noticed you have a deep affection for the word "hip." You say it pretty often. I get the feeling that you secretly mean "hep"--something about the way you use the word belies a kind of nostalgia for hepness. Probably because you use the word "cool" in its vicinity. "Cool" like "hep," jazzy, zoot suity, snapping fingers, loose at the wrist, scatty...
Stricker was with Wiley for three years and continued the Hep-winning streak her senior year--the first time a school had ever won five straight times. Like Wiley, she was a four-time first-teamer and a two-time All-American...
...wind down our awards presentation, we'd like to offer some advice for our hep-cat profs. Ditch buzz phrases such as "politics of identity" or "in postmodern thought." Don't use more than one set of quotation marks per blurb. Take a lesson in candor from Professor Willie...
...music (Kenny G, Judy Collins), mainstream Hollywood movies (action pictures) and middle-class recreation (jogging and golf) beloved by suburban baby boomers coast to coast. George Bush--a man who will probably go down in history as the last President to know what yar means--was a comparative hep cat with his idiosyncratic zest for pork rinds and cigarette boats...
...back when the tigers' vanity gets the better of them. Lester and Pinkney, who also reinterpreted the Uncle Remus books, have filled out the original narrative, setting the story in a fantasyland where every human is called Sam and animals talk (the tigers sound like up-to-the-minute hep cats, saying "Ain't I fine?" instead of "Now I'm the grandest tiger in the jungle!"). Lester and Pinkney also give the story--originally written in 1899 by a Scottish woman and set in India but with minstrel-like black characters--a specifically African-American slant. Marcellino's approach...