Word: butts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...First Varsity (IV) boat is coached by Charlie Butt, now in his twelfth year with the program. Butt, who himself is a former US national team rower, has coached Harvard crews to five National Championships...
Clearly, this crew has a strong sense of team unity, and at the core of this philosophy lies the coaching of Butt. Any of the rowers will defer to Butt's teaching when asked about their motivations...
Hence, the familiar boathouse idiom that "ergs don't float," emphasizing that brute power on the rowing machine does not necessarily translate into wins in he water. Butt often preaches the "nine on one" approach to racing. The crew and coxswain must function as one unified force, and view the opponent as nine independent rowers, any one of whom is vulnerable to "cracking" or having lapses in concentration...
...Crimson looks forward to this weekend's competition and to the remainder of the race season, the continue their methodical approach to the sport--rowing with urgency and with consistent practice intensity. coach Butt reminds them that their strength comes from intellectualizing the race...
Bunch of guys at a Manhattan 'plex watching The Matrix. Carrie-Anne Moss kicks some 'droid butt, makes a streetwide leap from one building top to the next, then crash lands through a small window. "The bitch is bad," one of the guys opines. "Go, girl!" Then Laurence Fishburne shows up as Morpheus--a morphing Orpheus, a black White Rabbit, an R.-and-B. Obi-Wan Kenobe, a big bad John the Baptist, a Gandalf who grooves; every wise guide from literature, religion, movies and comix. Though he's in a dark room in the dead of night...