Chic seems". By contrast, in Anita Loos' novel, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1925), the diarist Lorelei Lee recorded that "the French use the word 'sheik' for everything, while we only seem to use if for gentlemen when they seem to resemble Rudolf Valentino" (a pun derived from the latter's being the star of the 1921 silent film, "The Sheik"). The Oxford Dictionary gives the comparative and superlative forms of "chic" as "chicer" and "chicest". These are wholly English words: the French equivalents would be "plus chic" and "le/la plus chic". "Super-chic" is sometimes used: "super-chic Incline bucket in mouth-blown, moulded glass". An
The Lookie Loos The Lookie Loos The Lookie Loos are a New Zealand rock band formed in 2005 at the Waikato Institute of Technology in Hamilton. The two founding members of Tim Steers (Guitar and Vox) and Alex Mustard (Bass) met whilst studying. Steers moved from the U.K to study music in New Zealand and Mustard made the long journey from Waihi to study sport. The first full line up of the Lookie Loos saw the addition of an American drummer by the name of Joe Gruber, the three-piece then began playing live in Auckland and Hamilton in as many venues as they