Word: scarfing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard plays its best games against Yale. Especially at Yale. Especially when there is no chance to win, supposedly. The gridders may diddle at Dartmouth and dawdle at Brown, but when it comes to the Yale Bowl and some 70,000 fans of both persuasions (the color of the scarf is the give-away), well, things happen that just weren't supposed...
...most of it comes from the other side. We could laugh off their peculiar taunts of "Yale Reject!", knowing the opposite to be almost exclusively the case. Down in New Have, one could assume, they had nothing better to do than buy blue and white scarves (the Official Yale Scarf, incidentally, is manufactured in Harvard Square), carve their initials into the tables down at Mory's, import girls for football weekends. Harvard was more worldly than that, initiating academic, political and social trends which Yale could only sniff at or copy (or both...
...become startlingly visible over the past year in Cairo. Along the city's crowded sidewalks, on university campuses and in offices, young Egyptian women who once wore the latest in Western fashion are turning to Islamic dress. Many of them cover their heads with either a long scarf or a knitted "helmet" that descends from the head to the shoulders. Others shield the entire face, leaving only two eye openings in the veil. Despite temperatures that commonly range up to 95° F, the women wear gloves and stockings...
...named Jenny who died, he sings "New York, New York." And then, as the telethon is about to end, as the tote boards is making its last few revolutions, he wraps it all up, the tackiness and the communal feeling, the emptiness and the hope. He's sweating again, scarf round his neck, but now no clowning. First he sings "Dixie," agonizingly slowly, and then it segues into "America the Beautiful...
...muses: "The whole thing reminds me of Palm Springs à la 1950." But the current gilt trip, according to Mirabella, began in the spring of 1980 with French Designer Yves Saint Laurent's ready-to-wear collection. His show included a gold leather skirt and a gold-threaded scarf. The look quickly followed the path of least resistance to Saint Tropez, where gold-brocaded jogging shorts, silver bikinis and gold jackets over denim skirts became as common last summer, says one Saint Tropez shopkeeper, "as button-down shirts on Wall Street...