Word: crew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seen quite a few changes and made fine, weird, wired rock-'n'-roll music out of all of them, no matter how bizarre or diverse-high school memories and heroin jags, sweet romances and violent one-night stands, soirées with Warhol's underground crew and cruises through the lowlife. There has been one constant throughout. That gun is still drawn, and likely loaded. Danger is what Lou Reed's music has always been about. And that makes it classic, vital rock 'n' roll...
...Long Island, Reed endured the usual humiliations of adolescence (recalled in a lovely, almost sentimental song called Coney Island Baby) before setting out for Syracuse. After that came a flight into the nether regions of the New York pop life. He soon settled down with Warhol's crew of dilettantes and debauchees, a sojourn both memorialized and satirized in Reed's best-known song, Walk on the Wild Side, a barbed anthem to café society transvestites and chic street hustlers...
After a confusing week of practice in which coach John Higginson juggled the first two boats in a frantic effort to find the magic combination. the varsity lightweight crew pushes off on the Charles against MIT and Dartmouth this morning...
Much of the crew's difficulty stems from the departure of half of last year's varsity and the failure of last year's small freshmen boats to provide more than one replacement, Kevin Gaut, who will row at number two tomorrow...
...certain demeanor in rowing from his oarsmen. I don't think he's comfortable with very different personalities and levels of talent. He has an enjoyable penchant for self-effacing humor which goes well with national championship teams. But John doesn't know how to switch to a crew that may get beat...