Word: parker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's luck had run out. The Thames River whammy would disintegrate--plowed under by eight behemoths wearing the blue of New Haven. For 16 straight years Harry Parker had led his heavyweight oarsmen to victory in the annual confrontation in New London, Conn., but 1979 was going to be different...
...Thus, Parker's plan for the four-miler. Let Yale pull out ahead, keep them within range, grind back into the lead in the last mile. Parker, as always, had it figured...
...team, Crystal has been a stalwart-this year she's hitting .528 and getting on base 70% of the time-since her coach discovered her throwing a ball against a building. Besides baseball, her interests include basketball, music, bike riding and the Pittsburgh Pirates (her idol: Outfielder Dave Parker, who strong-armed the National League's 7-6 win in Seattle). Crystal, a B student, will enter the sixth grade this fall. But right now she's concentrating on leading the Phillies into the league playoffs and pursuing what used to be only a little...
...Parker tried almost everything else, from rat breeding to gas pumping to tomato picking, finally scraped together enough money for a London grubstake. He got to town just in time to get caught up in the first seismic shudders of punk and to join forces with the Rumour, a band that sounds like a five-man scorched-earth policy. Parker and the Rumour recorded their first album in 1976, got tagged both as punk's precursor and then, just months later, as the movement's first sellout. Soon after that Parker's career stalled over a hasty...
Whether administering lumps, re-examining old romances or launching new crusades, Parker's music has rediscovered its spirit and vigor. "Even if the subject of the song is depressing," Parker reflects, "I want to turn it into a celebration, in the sense that whatever it is, you can at least sing about it. That's what rock 'n' roll is anyway-a celebration." A large part of what it is, anyhow. And as a celebrator, as a seeker after fool's gold and as a straight-ahead rocker, Graham Parker makes the kind of music...