Word: skimpier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sprouse's work-a lime-green sequined dress with a halter collar could have been filched from Twiggy's attic-but his clothes, as Buyer Jean Rosenberg of Henri Bendel in New York City points out, "are not '60s redos. Those clothes were skimpier and skinnier." Sprouse's lines tend to be a little more careful and deliberate, even sculpted, and a lot of his wizardry comes in combinations, like throwing a man-size coat over a mini. Says Pat Henderson of Bergdorf Goodman: "I've got one of his bright pink wool tank dresses...
Criticism of her fiction stepped up after 1972, when Sagan reportedly began battling spells of illness, and her novels grew skimpier and more vulnerable to attack. In 1981 she was devastated when a French court banned her twelfth novel, a 178-page crime story called Le Chien Couchant (The Setter), on the ground that it was an "illicit reproduction" of a short story by another writer. The ban was later reversed on appeal...
...loss of the freshmen from the Sprints means the freshmen will race only once with the rest of the team this year, at Navy on April 26. The lightweights have a much skimpier schedule than their heavyweight counterpart, and their absence from the Sprints means a much bigger notch in their schedule...