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...according to the University's lingo--all the freshperson dorms qualify as newly renovated, with all rooms repainted in the last three years. And Parsons says all furniture will be replaced or restored...
...newcomer felt time-warped, mired in a past age of LP records, the ERA and two-wheel drive. It wasn't the new lingo ("persona," "agenda," "biorhythms"), nor the acronyms ("EIS," "CAD" and "MSG"). It wasn't the commercial wackiness of products like "gourmet dog food." It wasn't even the daily drive-by shootings -- talk about an automotive civilization -- in Los Angeles' gangland. Mayhem is not confined...
Sometimes, in the lingo of coaches, student athletes are "greased" -- passed along by high school teachers, coaches or administrators who cannot bring themselves to bar a star athlete's academic progress. Gene Pingatore, head coach of St. Joseph's High School outside Chicago, has a reputation as a man devoted to helping his student players, on and off the court. "I take a very personal interest in the kids," says Pingatore. "I'm going to do everything I have to do within the realm of what's legal and right for the kids." Just how far he is willing...
...rugby lingo, the play is called a scissors switch. In football talk, it's called a reverse...
...worth, overall, about half a billion dollars a year. It says something about the devotion the sport engenders that with such big bucks at stake, skateboarding remains a pretty straight-ahead endeavor. It has its own magazines (Thrasher and Transworld Skateboarding are the most successful), its own lingo, its own half-mystical lore and its own concepts of < cool. No thrasher excessively applauds another for an especially rad move. Miss a trick, and another skater will say, with offhand censure, "That was totally lame." But get it right, and the same comment or a close variation ("You're such...