Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...style at Virginia's West Potomac High School, denim crosses all social barriers. It is acceptable everywhere among kids, as long as it is not acid washed (a waning fad for bleaching out color) and as long as it is shaped into something baggy. "Kids won't wear tight jeans because they don't want to be uncomfortable," says Paul Marciano, advertising director of the wildly popular Guess? jeans line. For next season, he adds, "we have banished ornamentation. We have a clean look...
Receivers: Tight end Don Gajewski turned in a surprisingly good effort last week, making three difficult grabs for 56 yards and a touchdown. Neil Phillips makes the easy look difficult (he dropped a pair of passes against Columbia), but also the hard look easy. If he's not supposed to catch it, he will. Phillips (three catches for 51 yards) is the Crimson's deep threat...
Midfield play improved in the second half, but tight UNH marking and less-than-crisp Crimson passing limited Harvard's offensive opportunities...
...essence of Seoul, a vigor and emotionalism that find expression in the fierceness of the city's rites. At the World Evangelical Crusade in the Yoido Plaza last month, half a million Christians gathered round, crying "Allelujah!," their bodies swaying, their faces suffused with joy, tears streaming from their tight-closed eyes. Yet even in their ecstasies, the devotees were model citizens of Seoul: almost no one stood up, lest he obscure another's view...
...most of the area's residents, the convulsions of the "demo-crazy" students are as remote as South Bronx gangland warfare to a businessman in Manhattan; many, in fact, are concerned not that security will be too lax at the Olympics, but that it will be too inflexibly tight...