Word: semis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prudent not to get too comfortable. Even now, with the battered fortress of adulthood in grave need of repairs, a fresh assault is gathering. Sure as Sony makes videotape, unknown young directors with the artistic sensibility of not-yet-great white sharks are prowling the Taco Bells. Movie-struck, semi-pubescent punks with their cigarette packs turned up in the sleeves of their T shirts are spotting them and shooting their best Judd Nelson looks. And 14-year-old girls in shouldn't-be-legal shorts are looking cute and plotting how to be Katharine Hepburn, or maybe even Ally...
...theme was "Americana" or something like that and the girls all dressed in skintight silver shake-your-stuff suits for a toe-tapping salute to George M. Cohan and for the evening gown competition each semi-finalist was escorted in a knockout dress beneath an archway of uplifted Naval Academy sabers and the cadets lucky enough to accompany the lovely ladies wore Good Humor Man ice-cream suits and Remedial Math dropjaw smiles like a bunch of meatheaded Varsity fullbacks strutting arm-in-arm with prospective Homecoming Queens and for the swimsuit competition the camera played fly-on-the-wall...
Hockey East also announced a change in its play-off format for the 1987 tourney: the league's last place team during the regular season will not get a tourney bid, with the regular season champion and runner-up receiving byes to the semi-final round...
...last decade, however, ROTC has made a comeback of sorts on campus, gaining growing numbers of recruits and semi-official recognition from the University...
Earlier in the tourney, the Crimson beat Penn in the first round, 16-4, and slipped past Cornell in the semi-finals...