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Word: lightweight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe junior varsity lightweight boat surprised their varsity counterparts, not to mention the crew from Williams, as they cruised across the finish line in 6:42.6--a full six seconds ahead of the trailing varsity--in a race troubled by high winds, choppy water, and icy temperatures Saturday on the Charles...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: 'Cliffe Lights Sink Williams | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

Only after talking about his rowing background for almost 15 minutes does Peter Raymond, first year men's lightweight crew coach, reveal that he's rowed in the Olympics twice (in 1968 and 1972) and won a silver medal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Raymond: Modest Olympic Medalist | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

DEWITT: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs. About on-par with Cousin. Cousine: real lightweight. Maybe I could pick the ten best movies of 1978...I don't think I've seen ten movies in 1978. Terry Malick's Days of Heaven was wonderful. There's Dolby for you. And camerawork--Zsigmond again in places, and Haskell Wexler. Believe it or not, that movie taught me a lot about cinema...about compositions, how to use a moving camera, color...That's the best movie of the year, better than Malick's Badlands, too. His best. I loved Brooke Adams. Real odd, distinctive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Many Masks of DeWitt | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...profits at home have been squeezed by Sweden's high wages and stagnant productivity. With the price of a top-of-the-line Volvo now $16,000 in most markets Gyllenhammar had been counting on his Norwegian connection for the money needed to develop a radically designed lightweight vehicle that would give the company broader market appeal for the mid-1980s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: No Deal | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...these events unfold, the film is riveting. Chamberlain may not do much acting, but his juxtaposition with the Aborigines is brilliant. Chamberlain--the embodiment of the pretty male, a youthful, lightweight, civilized fop, contrasts perfectly with the well-weathered figures of the Aborigines, who bring a note of intensity to the screen, a doomed majesty from another time. When the Aborigines arrive at Chamberlain's house for dinner, they are beautifully out of place. Dressed in ill-fitting suits, they seem to be a part of Sydney's white world, but as they quietly eye the Steuban Glass, the Merimekko...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: A Thousand and One Aborigines | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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