Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love. Regardless, Huston injects the action with mechanical uncaring: Allnut and Rose talk genially in medium close shot, one of them looks off-screen, says "Look!", and Huston cuts to what they see; he resorts to this lethargic montage in introducing enemy troops, the fort, all rapids, and the boat Louisa. The repetition of dramatic technique promotes an episodic quality that defeats a build-up of suspense or tension; there is no attempt to vary action and the middle third of The African Queen concentrates solely on rapids: a small rapid, a big rapid, and--out of the blue...
That there was a second boat at all was a marvellous stroke of luck. Before 1914, Harvard had never bothered with a B-team eight. The second team traditionally rowed a four man shell, and the larger boat was new to all of them...
...opening races, in the greatest national tragedy since Victoria's death. Foreign possession of the Challenge Cup was unavoidable, but there was now a solid chance that, for the first time, the colonies might win it. In addition to the young Harvards, the "old Harvards"--the Union Boat Club of Boston--had won its first race...
...Boston rowers set a slow pace; at the half-mile marker, both shells were rowing thirty-two strokes a minute. Then Harvard gradually stretched its meager four foot lead. The space between the two crafts widened to a length. In desperation the Union Boat increased its stroking, but they seemed to observers to be fighting with the river rather than gliding through it. The Harvards won by a length and a quarter, in the time of 7 minutes and 20 seconds...
...Crimson had won in a watery walk. Stroking easily, the boat captured the admiration of the British press. London Field Magazine noted "the lightening quickness of their hands, a method which would appear to be a lost art among modern English oarsmen...