Word: lightweights
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...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...
...Lightweight Women...
...Radcliffe lightweight women are truly outstanding among lightweight collegiate programs. Radcliffe, which has lost only one dual race in the last 12 seasons, entered 1998 having captured the national title in each of the past two years...
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...