Word: val
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebounding and put up a few solid jump shots. Clapp led all scorers with 18 points, while Joseph and Holpuch each had 16. Harvard shot a season-high 48 percent from the floor. "I think we just proved that we were a much better team than Williams," said forward Val Jordan, who is still sidelined with a leg fracture. "We dominated them the whole game." The Crimson took advantage of a height advantage and Williams' few able ball handlers...
...NOTEBOOK: Coach Delaney Smith cited Springfield's Donna Losardo as a solid guard who might have been a little nervous in front of her old Westwood coach...Val Jordan is now sporting crutches, and the Crimson hopes she'll be back for the Dartmouth rematch after Christmas break...
Where is the next generation of slang to come from? Not from Valley Girl, the argot made famous lately by Singer Frank Zappa and his daughter, who is named Moon Unit Zappa. "Val" is really a sort of satire of slang, a goof on language and on the dreamily dumb and self-regarding suburban kids who may actually talk like that. It would come out all wrong if a minister were to compose his sermon in Val. "The Lord is awesome," he would have to begin. "He knows that life can sometimes be, like, grody-grody...
Meanwhile, a lot of Melvins who must have Val daughters have been writing them up in neat magazines and newspapers, not to mention major cool calendars, coloring books, beach towels, T shirts and lapel buttons. Two books on the Valley Girl's way of life are to be published in the next few weeks. CBS's fall lineup even has a sitcom called Square Pegs featuring...
...space cadets assume that Val Gals are simply updated versions of the 1940s bobbysoxer. Kiss my tuna! One conspicuous difference: the amount of billies a true Val pours into clothes, sunglasses, tanning oil, lip gloss, Tab, Doritos, Kahlúa brownies, Bubblicious chewing gum, beer (Heinies and Lowies), burritos, movies, Harlequin romances, records (anything by Journey, Rush, Van Halen, AC/DC) and movies (alltime fave: Mommie Dearest). Other Total Necessities: a blow dryer, a Walkman and at least one gold chain. PAVs are obsessed with fashion, crowding mondo cool stores from the Galleria in Sherman Oaks, Calif., to the Galleria...