Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...melted and the women in black--the Harvard women's crew team--are back on the water, setting up for the 1991 season. After losing only two seniors to graduation from last year's first varsity boat that finished second at Nationals, the women's crew team is optimistic for another great spring...
...novice crew, coming out of what Coach Holly Hatton termed the "toughest winter workout" she has ever run, will also have to face reality early with Brown in the schedule...
...thriller Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. It's the final phase of shooting, and volatile screen star Mickey Rourke has had enough. "Screw this!" he blurts out. "If I'm not going to get paid, then I'm not going to work!" Members of the film's production crew threaten their own wildcat strike five days later if they aren't paid. The panicked studio rushes paychecks to the set -- by messenger...
...release of two completed films, Delirious and Thelma and Louise, because it doesn't have the money to pay for prints and advertising. Such postponements are "unique and embarrassing," says Peter Bart, editor of Variety, Hollywood's top trade magazine. You can't blame Mickey Rourke and those crew members for worrying: some studio employees have seen their paychecks bounce. Parretti needs about $250 million to cover operating costs, future marketing costs and release of the films now held up. To raise the money he is appealing to European investors and such banks as Credit Lyonnais, which has already extended...
...cloudless Friday afternoon, several thousand servicemen gathered at Travis Air Force Base northeast of San Francisco to welcome back 430 crewmen from the U.S.N.S. Mercy, a onetime supertanker converted into a hospital ship. (A skeleton crew will sail the Mercy home from the gulf, arriving in 28 days.) The crewmen were cheered at Travis, then rode in buses to the Navy's Oak Knoll Hospital in Oakland with a motorcycle police escort...