Word: parker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conditions after months of heavy rain caused cancellation of the San Diego Crew Classic, scheduled for Sunday, preventing the Harvard heavyweights, from defending the title they won there last year. Senior captain CHARLIE ALTEKRUSE said yesterday the oarsmen have planned a scrimmage with the Olympic crew team instead. HARRY PARKER coaches both the Harvard and the Olympic boats...
...woman." So she was. With her 5 ft. 11 in., 38-24-36 frame, doe eyes, delicate cheekbones and mane of high-piled dark hair, she epitomized the classical, aristocratic look that she helped to make the style standard of the 1950s and '60s, along with Suzy Parker, Capucine and Veruschka. She never approved of the earthy, natural look that arrived in the 1970s with laid-back lovelies such as Lauren Hutton, Cheryl Tiegs and Margaux Hemingway. Fashion, she lamented, became "boobs and butts, anything to make pictures sexy." Even so, she knew how to make fashion pay: Wilhelmina...
...circle is really a triangle. By far the most engaging side of it is Jessica, played by Karen Allen, a young actress with a pretty, open face and a straightshooting manner that is extraordinarily winning. She is bright, wry, self-amused without being selfabsorbed. Jameson Parker, as a blond, bland Waspy square (he's pre-med), is perhaps a tad too deep into his role, appealing without being truly interesting. Brad Davis (the sweet victim of Midnight Express) proves here that he is really an actor. Playing a hustler carving out a career as a New Journalist...
Some fellows named Lowell, Emerson, Longfellow and Holmes thrashed out the idea with several others over oysters, steak and Burgundy at the Parker House in Boston. Their aim was a truly American magazine that would "concentrate the efforts of the best writers upon literature and politics, under the light of the highest morals." They succeeded admirably. In the 123 years since that founding dinner, the Atlantic Monthly has been a bastion of Yankee rectitude and high literary purpose...
Whereas the minds of the oarsmen are on the Olympics, Coach Parker thinks in terms of the European summer regattas for the 14 man team. "I still have a hope for Moscow but it's pretty slim," he says...