Word: hawaiians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Winthrop House has its own inimitable way of fabricating spring. On the first Saturday that dares to show a shaft of sunlight between the thickly knit clouds, we drag out the grills and declare a barbeque. Eager and willing to celebrate this long-anticipated new season, impatient Winthropians don Hawaiian shirts and sun-glasses. Music comes blasting into the courtyard from some heavenly sphere--or is it really only that fourth floor window? Miraculously, a tire swing appears in a nearby tree. Idyllic, you say. Just exactly how a spring day should be, you say. Well, you're wrong. Something...
Playing catch-up made ABC receptive to change. It was the first network to encourage Hollywood studios to produce series, striking early deals not only with Disney but also with Warner Bros. (77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye). ABC was also a pioneer in the made-for-TV movie format. Perhaps its most striking achievements came in sports programming. Under the leadership of Producer Roone Arledge, ABC increased the scope of athletics coverage with its weekly Wide World of Sports; introduced technical innovations like the instant replay; brought pro football into prime time with Monday Night Football; and substantially raised...
Then too there is a question of aesthetics: the American taste may be broadening, but many people still recoil from an unattractive name. So a vocabulary of euphemisms for Cinderella trash fish surfaces. Dogfish becomes grayfish or salmon shark. For opakapaka, try Hawaiian pink snapper. Blowfish are sold as sea robin or sea squab. The huge, shapeless monkfish fetches a , higher price under its French name, lotte...
Ingrid L. Ott '83 was exploring a mainland China village with a 6-ft., 2-in, red-haired friend. Her friend found a pair of shorts with a design similar to Hawaiian tourist shorts in a small shop for 25 cents, and liked them so much that he put them on immediately. When they left the shop and started walking down the street, a huge crowd of Chinese people followed them, laughing uncontrollably. Ott said that she had no idea if she or her friend was the object of ridicule...
Later, they met a friend who had lived in China for several years. He informed them that the "Hawaiian shorts" were actually womens' underwear...