Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Look--down there, river-ward. See them? The vendors, the die-hard crew fans, the novice crew fans, the cops, the babies, the dogs on leashes, the high school kids, the varsity-jacketed crew folk. But someone's missing: us. The Harvard kids. That's because we're in hiding...
...rendez-vous, a Little Crew...
Drop this magazine and run to the liquor store.Starting Saturday, the HUPD will seal off the Yardand check student IDs. The purpose of this addedmeasure of protection is to prevent hordes ofpolar-fleeced, loafer-clad, baseball-capped,crew-fans-for-a-weekend from entering and cloggingthe halls of Harvard, but it's also possible thatyour friends Jack Daniels and Johnnie Walker mightget stopped...
...actual race is something of adisappointment. Don't get me wrong; crew is agrueling sport peopled with some of thebest-conditioned athletes on the globe. Butthere's a reason why Nike doesn't plaster Americawith ads saying, "Just Crew It," and it hassomething to do with the fact that viewing aregatta is like watching paint...
...fault which finally dooms this movies is that the characters aren't even lovable idiots. As portrayed in this film, every character is as flat as a cartoon. Flatter in fact--the Smurfs have more life and vibrancy than this crew. The talented Lily Tomlin, who maintains a perpetual smirk on her face throughout the movie, does not succeed in instilling any sense of personality into her role; the rest of the cast seem to make a concerted effort to stifle any semblance of character in their characters. The only exception in the otherwise lackluster cast is newcomer Diedrich Bader...