Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Light has restructured the program in the past few years, changing the composition of teams, creating a new basketball program, and modifying the touch football program. He has increased publicity, broadened the range of sports and introduced some creative "incentives to participate." And from most reports, these innovations have injected new life into the program...
Freshman football is also scheduled differently than upperclass intramurals. Because of the large numbers of touch football forfeits in the past, Light changed the way games are scheduled. Instead of a regular schedule, teams now "contract" for a game on a week-by-week basis. Barnard says, "There has been less forfeiting and still pretty good participation...
Still, members have been arrested for distinctly unsymbolic criminal vandalism and assault in California, Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Michigan, Florida and Massachusetts. Their makeshift uniform makes them recognizable everywhere: shaved heads and garish tattoos, flight jackets, black English work boots -- and a California touch, Fred Perry tennis shirts. Skinhead culture seems to spread through racist rock music. Tapes and records by white- power rock groups feature songs such as Nigger, Nigger and Prisoner of Peace, the musical saga of Rudolf Hess. One group is called the Final Solution...
...Well I guess it would be nice/ If/I could touch your body . . ./ But I gotta think twice/ Before I give my heart away/ And I know all the games you play/ Because I play them...
...anybody who has stepped outside of a Harvard dorm will know that the homeless are not a very attractive lot--it would not be unfair to describe them as generally unclean, incomprehensible, and generally out of touch with reality. Why else would they be living on the street? But Matthau's oddball derelict is merely an eccentric with matted hair--and a keen eye for blackmail. Utterly ridiculous; utterly stupid...