European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 column the stars and stripes today s crossword keeping up with the ruling crowd by Williams afire keep your Eye on ruling advised Maureen Dowd a reporter for inc new York times More than a year ago. She said thai ruling Long used by soviet propagandists to derogate american democracy in the term ruling circles was now being used Here a a participle to mean advanced with it Avant Garde or  two quilt different senses arc in use confusing the  the first is doing Well going along line As in my Day is ruling inc second sense is socially dominant As in Jackie o.  t hcs Ilalee Dowd is a certified lexicographic irregular but the Only written citation for this locution was in a piece she wrote thai appeared in part 2 or the new York times Magazine on nov. 9, 1986. That ankle was about a social phenomenon called a it Kim anti a combination of celebrity and Debutante in particular the suddenly Well known Lisa Ede Slem of new York City who was cutting a Swath through new York society for reasons obscure to most. A message left on Edelstein s Telephone answering device by one of her cml men friends said i m in a Lizy. It s my Day and it is not  transcribing this cryptic message the reporter explained ruling once pan of inc Street argot of the 1960s, is the cur rent hic word for ctn Cool or powerful for control line a  in this Case nol ruling meant proceeding in stress causing manner up Selling one s  could i risk the vast authority of this column on a single use by one slightly confused Young Man. Per haps jut coming out of a deep sleep especially the son 10 use Liny an Outda cd Slang term perhaps de Rived from hysteria and related to the British a Swai the Chance of being lured into accepting at genuinely trendy a Mere nonce usage was too great 1 resolved to watch and wait. Comes now a new Magazine called in fashion. In is printed in big letters fashion writ Small. Very Short names arc do i eur for fashionable magazines. I la bet this publication soon changes its name to n simple in perhaps with a picture of Errol Flynn on the cover making its title Only twice As Long As Fairchild publications w and a which the cognoscenti know signify women and  there on the cover picture of Charlie Sheen and Charlotte Lewis apparently known As Hollywood s hottest  the headline ruling style sub headed fashions on the culling  the Dowd Early warning was accurate from now on i will Trust my sources More and i have launched a search for citations of Ming in the 60s. Perhaps in Blacken Glish. Here we Are in inc language used in nou Che society tli.11 is a term coined by John b. Fairchild pub Lisher of women s Wear daily and of the aforementioned single letter magazines it updates raft society which was the term used in the 20s to separate the merely celebrated from the old. Line old Money real society often broke but always capitalized. In Cleveland Amory s i960 who killed society the coinage of cola so titty was pinpointed loan evening at new York s Ritz in 1919, when the first Cholly Knickerbocker columnist Maury Paul noted that society figure were dining out on thurs Day night maid s night offend concluded that a new night life Wai dawning which he dubbed cafe now we Art titillated by nou Ewe society. The use of the French adjective Nouvelle was probably inspired by Nouvelle cuisine which in turn was rooted in nov Vitle vague a phrase used by film directors in the tale 1950s meaning new  the feminine adjective soul cute matched the Femi nine noun so cite though in France leaders of the big Money establishment and heir Debutante Daugh ters Are called Lebom a wife the Beautiful world,111 am informed by women s Wear s Patrick Mccarthy. Nouvelle contrasted suitably with inc masculine nou Veau which called up Nouveau Rich a Label that the longtime snooty hang on the recently snooty these moneyed pretenders Are also sniffed at is social climbers by those to the Manor bom who know How to Wield a Lornette eyeglasses attached to a handle once defined As a dirty look on a stick. In Socie Lese Nouver be society is new York based and freshly wealthy or newly notable. It s not to be confused with the Jet set i am told by Claudia Cohen eyewitness news reporter with new York t wac to whose beat includes these freshly celebrated new makers those taut Pitit people arc much More International than Nouv Lle  Beautiful people a phrase to Bly led in be Beau Monde is attributed to Vogue editor Diana a Mccland in the 1960s, though some say it was the coinage of copy chief Rosemary Blackmon however the term is passe today. So is Jet set which first appeared in print in inc 50s to describe the fashion conscious group thai used Jet aircraft to take them to the world s watering spots in passionate Pursuit of pleasure. The term is analogous 10 smart set inc smart part was applied la the dandies in London in 1718 according to Liz Smith today s Premier gossip columnist the term Jet set a a victim of technology Cally induced egalitarianism these Days everybody s in the Jet set who wants to go anywhere. There s no other Way to go so the elitist connotation Digap  she sees inc term Aurelle society a nou Veau rite with the sting taken out people who T been designated As in Are usually delighted they Don t realize they Are being made fun of in a  full disclosure requires me to say i was designated by w a in one year and columnist Art Buchwald Wai out Art Cut me dead the next Lime we met but with this new profound understanding of the term we can be read in the same circles again sit Tonti has fallen into disuse this 1940 coinage like the More recent  is what Lewis car Roll called a portmanteau word after a suitcase that opens into two parts la is based on Gritter from the old Norse Olitia sparkle Shine and literati from the latin for Learned scholarly people. A locution to Waich i m sensitized now is Fuff incl based on Frank Sinatra s Hollywood Rai pack. 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