En route to being emptied of meaning altogether, terms like these become buzzwords, Proscio says, and "a policy paper simply isn't serious if it doesn't include the latest exotic technical term or chic business school phrase".
I appeared sitcom mom chic, old school, on par with Donna Reed, June Cleaver, or Harriett Nelson.
From the Gate of India, overlooking the Arabian Sea, the city of Mumbai stretches back 20 miles, a thickening spread of choked roads, slums, commercial districts and, as you head north along the shoreline, large suburbs of villas, apartment blocks, chic eateries, schools, brightly lit markets selling cheap clothes, the occasional mall and office blocks.
DRESS CODE For both men and women, art school chic, thrift store T-shirts, retro inspired sneakers, skinny jeans and tattoos.
Fans formed a clique around the band's idiosyncrasies -- fashion-wise, a rumpled boarding school chic -- with Mr. Malkmus's lyrics the code for them to crack.
The club, which is a cold, industrial square room with tiled walls and metal heaters, glowing red and hanging ominously from the ceiling above, attracts an art school chic, avant garde crowd to match the range in sounds that run through its incredibly warm, yet punchy sound system.
Sharon Stone said she was considering a classic orange purse, which she called "chic" and "old school," while Kristin Davis of "Sex and the City" said she was waiting for the frenzy to die down before making her choices.
"The principals gave a tremendous response to it, and said, 'We need this in our schools,' " Chic Dambach, Operation Respect's president and C.E.O., said the other day.
A few pages into this book, I wondered if in these days of global style and aging-is-a-state-of-mind, the chic, middle-aged French school uniform with a dash of cold cream look is still relevant.
