Word: hipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Annie meets the near-demented girl on her own level, exchanging wild slaps and pokes. Still Helen breaks away, feinting her tormentor out of position, crawling under the table, perching on her chair with a kind of prim furor, and refusing to eat. With only the exhausted movement of hip or hand, Annie expresses the depths of her combined determination and despair. She is reduced to a disheveled wreck, chest heaving, shoulders slumped, slovenly hair sloping across her face...
...certain flatness of tone to portray the concerned and anxious wife of Hector. John Beck, doubling as the crafty Ulysses, presents a fine portrait of the experienced and uningenuous Greek ambassador. Christopher Rawson's portrayal of Paris as a complete sensualist involved an excessive number of effeminate hand-on-hip gestures...
...Paris. In this, her fourth appearance, Eloise dons raccoon coat and diplomatic pout to travel to Moscow, where Mommy has some vague connections with Americanski Embassyski. And here is the thing of it, as she would say: never before have those Red squares been exposed to anyone as hip as Eloise...
...author's Greenwich Village days, for instance, have left him with what seems to be a permanent fascination with Hip-that freemasonry of the beard and the weird, whose lodge brothers Mailer tags "white Negroes" (although black Negroes also are members). Hipsters, writes Mailer admiringly, are "philosophical psychopaths," stronger, less intellectual and more vigorous sexually than Beatniks. The opposite of Hip, of course, is Square. Mailer it-provides a small glossary of opposites: crooks and sin are Hip, while cops and salvation are Square; likewise T-formation football and the New York Herald Tribune are Hip, but the single...
...dances were as varied as the Arabic, Malayan and Spanish ethnic influences that formed them: a Bontoc war dance had loinclothed dancers running and bounding about in a blur of flailing shields and spears; a wedding-party dance had a suggestion of Spain in the gentle sway of hip and shoulder. In one of the evening's high points the company performed a traditional pole dance, stepping with unhurried grace through a grid of clashing poles clapped together in an accelerating syncopated rhythm. The dancers-many of them in their teens-showed a simple, unsophisticated enthusiasm that kindled...