Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is no mean designation; but, since critics are explainers, not storytellers, Mailer is usually perceived as a heavyweight and Capote as a lightweight. The champ himself contributed to this view in Advertisements for Myself (1959): "At his worst [Capote] has less to say than any good writer I know. I would suspect he hesitates between the attractions of Society which enjoys and so repays him for his unique gifts, and the novel he could write of the gossip column's real life, a major work, but it would banish him forever from his favorite world...
...genuinely new press stories at this convention was the fact that local TV stations were sending their own people rather than relying on the networks' phalanxes. Only a handful of local stations covered past conventions. This year more than 150 made the trip. The new, lightweight minicams have made it technologically easier for the locals to come, and the brass-knuckle competition among stations has made it imperative. Said Pfister: "News has become such a big profit center that they're willing to spend a lot to keep their ratings...
Championships were won in squash, swimming, heavyweight crew, lightweight crew, baseball and lacrosse...
...women's squads took two firsts, in soccer and lightweight crew. But the quickly improving Crimson women also inched closer to Ivy supremacy in a number of areas; the second-place finishes in cross country, squash and heavyweight crew reinforce that notion...
...lightweight loss came at the hands of Witwatersrand, victors by half a length...