Word: spiff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drawing. After all, he has a whole week to form a really powerful set images. But "Outland" looks as sketchy and hurried as the worst weeks of "Bloom County." It certainly doesn't measure up to the artistry of "Calvin and Hobbes" in one of its Sunday Spaceman Spiff strips...
...necessary to be a board chairman to spiff up in a tux, however. "The tuxedo is a great equalizer," suggests Chicago Fund Raiser Sugar Rautbord. "It's hard to distinguish between the head waiter and a CEO." Bill Blass, whose traditional tux designs for After Six are among the industry's best sellers, brings the whole matter down to earth and into perspective: "Ultimately, it all stems back to women. It's the gal who wants to dress up, and the fellow has to go along." That's one reason Blass has been a success for so long; he knows...
...behind him. They were used to the behavioral extravagances and shock-therapy experimentation of the young avant-garde art world, and brought that same go-for-it attitude to their music. Playing at Manhattan's CBGB, the proto-punk club on the Bowery, the Heads dressed in strictly Ivy spiff, like floorwalkers from Brooks Brothers. Byrne, eyes bulging, long neck turning like a periscope, sang like a carny geek who could not digest his chicken. Then there were the songs. "Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est/ Run, run, run, run away," Byrne would blurt, contriving to sound simultaneously...
Others take a more positive approach to their labors. Tony Sadberry and Steve Kennedy re-point all of the Yard's kiosks and "spiff up the rooms, and any miscellaneous areas that might be seen," but they look forward to the challenge. Sadberry explains. "If the alumni see what they like, they give more money," and he adds that he and his mate enjoy getting to know the alums during their coffee breaks and at various receptions. "We get a chance to dine with some people," says Sadberry with a smile...
Trailing by three, 56-53, as late as midway through the second half, the Crimson managed to find the intensity necessary to spiff up a largely lackluster performance and chalk up its first win of the year...