Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's all the lessons you'll learn in yet the latest Lethal Weapon, and all you'll need to know. Fourth in a chain, this movie is lightweight and lighthearted, out not to change but to entertain the world and doing a fine...
...changed course, abandoning Purism, as he called it, for something more robust and sculptural. His spartan, lightweight architecture turned rustic, with heavy walls of brick and fieldstone and splashes of bright color. He discovered the potential of reinforced concrete and made it his own, leaving the material crudely unfinished, inside and out, the marks of wooden formwork plainly visible. Concrete allowed Le Corbusier to explore unusual shapes. The billowing roof of the chapel at Ronchamp, France, resembles a nun's wimple; the studios of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard push out of the building like huge cellos...
...writing of most of the poems included in Prufrock and the composition of The Waste Land; and in a 1915 letter to Conrad Aiken, Eliot had said, "The War suffocates me." Whether or not Eliot had written down the Armageddon of the West, he had showed up the lightweight poetry dominating American magazines. Nothing could have been further from either bland escapism or Imagist stylization than the music-hall syncopation ("O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag") and the pub vulgarity ("What you get married for if you don't want children") of The Waste Land. Eliot's poem went...
Radcliffe's first lightweight race was on April 4 at the San Diego Crew Classic, where the varsity crew successfully defended its title from last year. Upon their return to the East Coast, the lightweights proved that their speed and dedication were enough for yet another outstanding season, as they defeated Princeton, Villanova, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Virginia...
...only expectation the lightweight women had going into this season was that we were going to have to work extremely hard to be competitive against each of the teams we raced," said captain and stroke Amy Mecklenburg...