Word: snugly
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...flash may also be passing away. The Gloria Vanderbilt people, for example, admit guardedly that there has been a sales plunge in their basic jeans model. But as much money as they pulled down for a few seasons, designer jeans were always a joke, just a fussy vamp-usually snug around the butt and thighs-on a basic, utilitarian garment. The only different thing was the logo...
...sign up. Later, each player was asked to write out what he considered to be his essential role on the team, and Kurri put down "Beating up anybody who picks on Wayne." But to date he has been held back, despite himself, by an essentially peaceful nature and snug gloves. A formidable if not imposing 6 ft. 1 in., 185 Ibs., Kurri has yet to appear in a fight. "My gloves won't shake off," he moans...
...success is almost as wild as the opera poof masquerades of its lead singer, Boy George. Consider: three Top Ten singles from Culture Club's first album, Kissing to Be Clever, which sold more than a million copies; a fourth, fresh single, Church of the Poison Mind, already snug at No. 11, with another, Karma Chameleon, ready to take off; and a new album, Colour by Numbers, storming the LP charts...
...soup survived, and thieving camel drivers overcome are what a proper travel book requires. The author labors at gaudy landscapes because they make good backdrops for sketches of himself in jaunty poses; the reader tolerates this hamminess because tales of bandits and dysentery make him feel snug in his armchair. Writing such stuff is an honest dodge, and in recent years no one has dodged more expertly than Paul Theroux in The Great Railway Bazaar (Europe and Asia) and The Old Patagonian Express (North and South America...
...them, Cicero is snug, not bigoted They say that the prices of their brick bungalows will fall if a black family moves near by. "What people fear here is not skin color," says Real Estate Salesman Eugene Bielawa, "but devaluation of what they've worked all their lives fora nice home." Restaurateur Christos Rozos, who came from Greece in 1962 is wary of black Americans. "Why do they want to move here?" he wonders. "We've spent a lot of money to make this street beautiful...