Word: length
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three boats came off the line evenly, with Penn matching Harvard through the first portion of the race. By the 750-meter mark, the Crimson had gained a half-length lead, which it slowly pushed out to three-fourths of a length with 1,500 meters gone...
Then, with only 500 meters left, the Quakers made their move and began to inch back on the Crimson. But as the three boats sprinted to the finish, Harvard was able to hold off the charging Penn eight by a half-length at the line...
...could drink with the best of them, curse with the worst of them. But at a recent photo shoot in a studio in New York City, Blige traded haughtiness for haute couture--her hair was up, her makeup was Cover Girl flawless, and she was wearing a black ankle-length Christina Perrin dress that left one golden-brown shoulder bare...
...questioning. She comes alive, though, when we make a stop at the showroom of French designer Thierry Mugler. She loves shopping at the pricey places--Versace, Fendi, Chanel. Her taste in clothes, however, isn't always as sure as her taste in music. She tries on a floor-length purple coat that looks like something Rick James would have worn to Louis XIV's coronation. "Oh, my God!" she exclaims, loving it. Next, a lumpy bright orange coat that makes her look like a citrus industry spokeswoman...
...BOOKS. . . MASON & DIXON: Although there are similarities of length and his trademark narrative rhythm, Thomas Pynchon?s new novel (Henry Holt; 773 pages; $27.50) is in some ways even more difficult than its famously challenging predecessor, 'Gravity's Rainbow.' This time out, the author renounces contemporary English speech altogether and casts the entire narrative in the 18th century diction allegedly spoken by a clergyman named Wicks Cherrycoke; he is the one who tells aloud the tale of his one-time acquaintances Charles Mason (1728-86) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-79) over what must have been an incredibly long night...