Word: meters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sept. 26, 1983, the 12-meter yacht Australia II crossed the finish line off Newport, R.I., capturing the America's Cup and ending 132 years of U.S. sailing supremacy. Americans were astonished when John Bertrand, an unknown naval engineer, steered his boat to victory. But those familiar with the Melbourne skipper were not surprised: Bertrand's great-grandfather had helped build Sir Thomas Lipton's towering boats for early 20th century America's Cup competitions. As Bertrand admits in Born to Win, he relied as much on gamesmanship as yachtsmanship. He called the boat's new forward-slanted keel...
Charles Meyer's series of colorful pictures present Klansmen in Alabama, aressed in their traditional hooded uniforms, staring proudly into the camera. These journalistic photos hane opposite Bonnie Donohue's college of blurry video reproductions documenting the 1984 Olympic women's 3000-meter race...
...cavern containing a genuine imitation 17th century PIRATE SHIP! Get out ALIVE! (And have a nice day.) As in any fun house, the pleasures here are as subtle as a rattrap sprung on a boy's foot. Dense, oppressively frenetic, heavy on the slapstick and low on the charm meter, the film asks to be experienced, not cherished. This efficient thrill machine contains gag homages to its makers' earlier work (E.T., Screenwriter Chris Columbus' Gremlins, Director Richard Donner's Superman) and even self-critical lines of dialogue ("I feel like I'm baby- sitting except I'm not getting paid...
...hoped, but he probably gained some satisfaction from the fact that two Black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, held up their black-gloved, fist-clenched hands in the "Black power" salute while on the medal stand after winning the gold and bronze, respectively, in the 200-meter dash...
Smith presented a challenge to the lights only at the start of the 2000- meter course and was embarrassingly shortlived. They rowed stroke for stroke with the Black and White for the first 100 meters until Radcliffe settled into its smooth and relentless eythmn. The lights began increasing their margin by entire boatlengths, ultimately reaching four by the finish...