Word: heavyweights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...collision between those two cultures. Finally it becomes a romance between the elegant choreographer and the dead man's explosive, disturbing older brother -- a sexually charged clash of classes reminiscent of It Happened One Night or, in its brutality and danger, of the misfit infatuation in Requiem for a Heavyweight. The final scene is a rapprochement so tentative that it is played entirely in the dark: these reluctant lovers are unable even to look at each other...
Harry Parker: god. The most important single figure in American rowing. Parker is in his 26th year as the Harvard heavyweight coach and coached the U.S. scullers for the 1984 Olympics. Parker went to Penn, where he discovered rowing...
Sprints: events held each spring to determine Eastern champions. The men's sprints are held on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcestor in May to determine the Eastern lightweight and heavyweight championship crews. The women's sprints are a week later on Lake Waramaug in New Preston, Conn. The most important regular event on the crew calendar...
Boston University heavyweight Coach Joe Falco agreed, saying that the regatta has been "getting out of hand," with "more people getting drunk than watching the races...
There is just no getting away from Bad. Even before its official release date on Aug. 31, there were plentiful rumors and heavyweight expectations about Michael Jackson's first solo record in five years. Among other things, the new album had to meet and match his 1982 Thriller, which sold an unprecedented 38.5 million copies around the world and made him into a pop-culture phenomenon, part dancing phantom and part homeboy Kewpie. Bad's first single, a bonbon called I Just Can't Stop Loving You, was a perfect love ballad for parlous times: sexy but hygienic, passionate...