Word: snugness
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...year, has 176 students in grades 9 through 12. Almost all are Navajos -- the Dine, as they call themselves, which means the "People." This year there are also three Anglos, as whites around here are invariably called. Nestled against a high shelf of rock, the school consists of a snug quadrangle of dilapidated buildings on the grounds of a turn-of-the-century Methodist mission. It has a pleasant atmosphere and, if you blur your eyes a bit, looks like a down-at-the-heels New England prep school transferred to a bleak section of the Southwest...
...styling ("the Savile Row look") are good for laughs. Stewart, who made some of the smart costumes for Brian De Palma's upcoming film version of The Bonfire of the Vanities, says the demand for his suits with "a very smart, small waist, nice and snug off the hips with a full chest," is "increasing, but we just haven't got the men to meet it. There are no tailors around. I've got an eight- to nine-month backlog...
...Wearing snug aerobic leotards and boots, the high-stepping Illinettes do their best to psych up fans at football and basketball games. Though the task force suggested that boozy frat and tailgate parties should go too, it's the threatened pompon ban that has the campus stirred up. "We've been made a scapegoat," charges Illinette squad captain Pam Withers, 20, who says the Illinettes are campus role models. "We consider this a serious sport...
...course, just plain pretty. Their just released Merry, Merry Christmas is a Yuletide celebration that sounds snappy while simultaneously evoking the innocent pleasures of mistletoe and holly. All the things that hard rap never is, but those 7 million record buyers apparently yearn for it to be: safe, snug and (if you listen close), just a little smug. This is one key to the Kids' success. Parents are perpetually sweating about rap-smitten, rock- blitzed offspring going to concerts and mixing it up with gold-chain snatchers and drug vendors. Little chance of that on any block where...
...palpable. Gerald Robinson, with 22 years of seniority, feels secure in his GM production job and agrees with Bush about capital punishment. But he will vote Democratic this time because he fears that Reaganomics is ruining American industry. James and Martha Hurry are doing all right today; their snug bungalow was paid off many years ago, and they receive $20,000 a year in pension payments. But Hurry, 72, worries about being wiped out financially if he has to enter a nursing home. He repents his vote for Reagan because "ten years ago, I thought I was pretty well...