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Pucci owes his new fame to a revolution that began in the gym and on the jogging track. Gradually, the line between work-out gear and street clothes has blurred, and, as people gazed into the studio mirrors, they began to see that an unbroken silhouette looks longer and leaner than one cut up by a skirt...
...movement that started in the gym has blossomed into sexy, long-stemmed silhouettes. Tights, body stockings and leggings are the first fad of the '90s, starting a boom in the hosiery business and restoring septuagenarian Italian designer Emilio Pucci to the top of the international hit parade...
...what's wrong with cheap lodging in New York, a convenient gym, a few pleasurable hours in the good company of old friends, and genuine business opportunities? Why not take advantage of the system and not let it take advantage...
Popularized in France in the mid-1980s, the indoor version of the sport is catching on in the U.S., both on campus and off. Climbing walls at health clubs in Atlanta and Fort Collins, Colo., are doing landslide business. Seattle's Vertical Club, the U.S.'s first rock gym, built in 1987, now has some 400 members who pay $225 a year to scale its heights. The reason for success, according to Chris Grover, president of Entre Prises, the U.S. affiliate of a French wall manufacturer, is the result of removing real climbing's dangers. "Indoor cliffs appeal...
...there were "NIT" banners at Yale's Payne Whitney Gym urging that tournament's selection committee to consider the Elis--Ivy League runner-up to Princeton--for its postseason tournament. Yale is unlikely to garner the bid, despite its 19-7 record, because of its easy schedule. Case Western Reserve, Swarthmore and Columbia aren't exactly the type of competition any national tournament wants to see its teams playing...