Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Each crew has suffered tough losses to graduation. Although a corp of three top-notch oarsmen remain on each crew, the Crimson has graduated a total of ten oarsmen from last year's boats...
...Sprints, both crews were blown out. The lightweights finished fifth, nearly eighteen seconds off pace-setting Dartmouth. The heavyweights also placed third, albeit only three seconds behind the winning Brown crew...
...fact, that Brown crew won everything in sight last season. The Bears won at Sprints, Nationals and the Henley Regutta in England. Adding insult to injury, Brown blew out Harvard by more than seven seconds in a dual-meet held at Providence...
...could not, stemming the tide of rafters. On the beach at Guanabo, east of Havana, Saturday night's forecast is for 15-ft. waves and more rain. The balseros along the shore use their time to work on their rafts, dream, complain. Jorge Luis, 36, introduces his raft's crew. "Just because we're discontented, we're considered antisocial," he says. "But in fact we're all professionals. Cuba is like a prison these days. You work one month to eat one day. You . . . " And then he pauses and smiles, surveying one raft after another beached on the white sands...
...stages of the project -- writing, shooting, editing -- Stone encouraged everybody to go higher, wilder. "The set was intense and exciting," recalls Harrelson, a bit of a real-life brawler whose father is in prison for murder. "Oliver played an incessant barrage of wild music to get you going. The crew would jam the music, then fire shotguns into the air." All the actors felt this electricity, like a searchlight or a cattle prod. "Oliver shot at a feverish pace," Sizemore says, "54 days and no standing around. It was managed chaos...