Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...July 7, the Harvard men's heavyweight crew won the premier event at the world's premier rowing regatta for the first time in more than a quarter of a century...
Elsewhere on the men's side, the heavyweight crew this year claimed the Eastern Sprints, Nationals and the Henley Regatta in England against the world's best crews. And the baseball, sailing, squash, tennis and track teams are all perennial contenders...
...back rooms of penny arcades as dark and crowded as steerage on a ship chugging toward Ellis Island, they saw magic, moving shadows that served as a crash course in their adoptive country's history, behavior, values, ideals and follies. A maiden defends her honor; Jack Johnson defends a heavyweight title; firemen career through city streets toward a blazing house; bandits rob a train, and the sheriff fires his six-shooter right at the audience. True love conquers all prejudices in a land with a built-in happy ending. In the universal language of images, the movies told over...
...shrewd mythmaker's instinct for that kind of metamorphosis. Stallone's formative influence was the Hercules movies of Steve Reeves, whose physique he energetically and wistfully labored to replicate. Stallone eventually took his splendidly muscled creation over into fiction. He became Rocky, the Philadelphia loser who beats up the heavyweight champion of the world. Now Stallone's pectorals and deltoids are in service again as Rambo. The name sounds like a good ole boy's rendering of Rimbaud. Rambo is a veteran who single-handed accomplishes what the U.S. Army and Marines never could do. He defeats Viet Nam. Those...
...when the final varsity heavyweight shell crosses the finish line in Cincinatti on June 15, ending the Collegiate Nationals, Harvard and Radcliffe teams will have claimed 12 Ivy League titles, tying the all-time league mark they established two years ago--and almost matched last year with 11 Ivy crowns...