The word "groovy" is a legitimate word in written English.
Generally, it is used to describe something as being enjoyable or cool, often in a casual, laid-back way. For example, "I heard the new album and it's pretty groovy!".
Buoyed up by my new-found normality, I gathered up cheap groovy T-shirts and a couple of skirts, knowing they would fit, but the shoes were my undoing.
On the other hand, that rule-breaking mindset is so closely associated with a certain era that it's not easy to wear flares without actually looking groovy.
The wooden panels and brass piping feature wall make you feel as though you've landed in a groovy laneway bar in Melbourne.
No groovy vintage shops nor wine bars with mopeds in then, just old man pubs with etched glass and pianos.
And even our interview conforms to the cliche of the genre: it's taking place in the corporate boardroom of his groovy offices in Soho (a yellow piano in the reception, a graffiti wall) and though a PR man and his chief operating officer are in attendance as well as me, he is, by quite some margin, the youngest person in the room.
In the homemade LGSM documentary, we also glimpse a tall, handsome fellow wearing groovy leather trousers, shaking a donations bucket outside Gay's the Word bookshop in London's Marchmont Street – this is Jonathan Blake.
"This bill will go down in history as an actual groovy piece of legislation," he said.
The country's main spy agency, anxious perhaps to keep security problems on the agenda, announced on December 9th that two southern schoolchildren who disappeared in 1977 had been abducted to North Korea to teach spies how to sound like groovy capitalists instead of brainwashed Dear Leader-worshippers.
If there's to be no carbon price after 2012, there's no reason for companies to invest in cleaner technology.Green is groovy, but that may not lastThe European Commission got tough last autumn, and slashed governments' allocation plans for the second phase of the ETS, which runs from 2008-12.
According to legend in the education world, "Children and their Primary Schools", better known as the Plowden Report of 1967, set off a revolution in the classrooms, as its groovy new "progressive" approach to teaching swept away the fuddy-duddy "traditionalist" methods blamed for boring generations of pupils out of their minds.As with most legends, the truth is a little more complex.
A sceptical crowd circled the Ford Airstream, a concept car in groovy chrome and fluorescent orange.
