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...most promising U.S. entries include the San Diego-based Stars & Stripes '87, skippered by Dennis Conner, who does not want to be remembered only as the man who lost in 1983, and America II, sponsored by the New York Yacht Club, which previously defended the Cup. By the end of the grueling four-month test of skill and technology, an estimated $150 million will have been spent by all hands to determine where America's Cup spends the next three years...
...Amos Vogel's pioneering Cinema 16 film club. Oh yes, it was instructive and ennobling, watching the elliptical 16mm films that some of us thought would take cinema into the post-narrative age and make it a truly modernist art. We also had to admit that movies like Bruce Conner's Cosmic Ray (a naked woman dances to a Ray Charles song) and Stan Brakhage's Window Water Baby Moving (birth, in gynecological closeup) were also, relatively speaking, hot stuff. Carolee Schneeman's Fuses was 18 minutes of lovemaking -lovemaking turned into an art movie because the artist had painted...
...only other swimmer to win an event in the second two days of the meet was freshman Bridget O’Conner who lead a one two finish in the 100-yard butterfly with senior Allison Bates finishing in second...
...every event we had so many people swimming together from Harvard and that really helped,” O’Conner said. “I think knowing that they all train together made them so confident going in and seeing each other they pushed each other harder...
...mean technically in the score books we didn’t win but we did beat everyone by a significant amount in that relay,” O’Conner said. “In everyone else’s mind we did win that relay and it was our best relay—we knew that we had the four fastest girls in the Ivy League...