Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lightweight: a shell with a specific weight limit. For men, the boat must average 150 pounds per oarsman. For women, the average must be 129.5 pounds...
Sprints: events held each spring to determine Eastern champions. The men's sprints are held on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcestor in May to determine the Eastern lightweight and heavyweight championship crews. The women's sprints are a week later on Lake Waramaug in New Preston, Conn. The most important regular event on the crew calendar...
...going to change that. Curator Peter Galassi has mounted 90 photographs that Cartier-Bresson, 79, took at the outset of his career, mostly from 1932 through 1934. During those years he put aside his ambitions as a painter and began stalking the streets of three continents with a lightweight Leica and a potent surrealist intuition, an eye for the unearthly subtext of ordinary scenes. Add his powerful gift for spatial arrangement, and the result, says Galassi, is "one of the great, concentrated episodes of modern...
...bicycle: lightweight, two-wheeled, steerable machine propelled by its rider; the bicycle is said to be the most efficient means yet devised to convert human energy into propulsion...
...many new ultracrafts, jet-powered engines have replaced outmoded rudders and propellers, allowing for vibration-free lightweight fiber glass or aluminum hulls and easy entry into shallow-water ports. According to London- based Designer Jon Bannenberg, who has six yachts in the works for Americans, high tech has just about revolutionized the business. "The perception of yachts was big, slow, rather old-fashioned," says Bannenberg. "Now people see something connected to the life they lead ashore. People who step out of their Porsches and Mercedes feel that they are stepping into today's technology...