Search Details

Word: crew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Battling choppy and windy conditions on the Charles, the usual jitters surrounding a season's first race, and the B.U. heavyweight crew, the Radcliffe heavies earned high marks on all counts Saturday morning as they destroyed the Terriers by 24 seconds--in crew jargon, curvature of the earth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Crews Smoke B.U. in Season Opener | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...sided competition, as the oars-women simply cruised across the finish line and relaxed in their seats. Seconds later, coxswain Liz Friese threw both arms skyward in a motion reminiscent of Leon Spinks, to signal the start of another outstanding season for the Radcliffe heavyweight crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Crews Smoke B.U. in Season Opener | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Radcliffe crew--lightweight and heavyweight crews defeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOREBOARD | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...stunning exception in this crew is Shields. A child model of astounding beauty, she is also, at least at twelve, a natural actress. It is chilling to watch her come on to Johns, aping the older whores' bedroom spiel in a mock-adult voice; her scenes with men are the movie's best. Though the film does not explicitly show Violet's bedroom activities, Shields is at times a sexual figure. A volatile mixture of both innocence and carnality, she makes the audience feel that anything can happen when she is around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Child's Garden of Sin | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...brew crew spends its days monitoring the spigots of a miniature brewery that looms like some Rube Goldberg creation in their Cruess Hall lab. After breaking down 20 commercial beers chemically, the students then create their own original product. Fruits of this term's efforts: a barley wine, a dark German-type beer and a low-carbohydrate model. But both state laws and college custom decree that all potions be discarded after taste tests. "Sentence one, day one: there will be no abuses," says Microbiologist Michael Lewis, a ruddy-faced Welshman who has taught the course since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High Spirits at Brew U. | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Previous | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | Next