Word: kent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...futurist sensibility took hold, mainstream designers showed some transitional ambivalence: a goofy "electric candle" (1929) on view at the Whitney is unsure if it is supposed to look like a rocket or an actual candle or a tiny fluted Doric column. But the black-paneled Atwater Kent radio from the same period has a machine-age spareness that is, like Fred Astaire, both suave and ingenuous. It is an American synthesis that product design has only lately been recapturing, as in Apple's nubile Macintosh computer...
...Paul Kent pumped around the last bank to seal the 68-67 triumph...
Racing against two excellent BC runners in the 3000, Kent carried Harvard's fate on his shoulders. And when he came through the last banked turn--arms pumping, having shattered his competition with a huge final kick--the thinclads were still alive...
...strategy was just to stay with them as long as possible," Kent said. "It wasn't until the last quarter mile that I thought I could beat them with my kick...
...After Kent's dramatic victory, BC never recovered...