Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson heavyweight crew's loss to Penn and Navy on April 30 this year ended the squad's bid for its 14th undefeated season under the 26-year reign of Coach Harry Parker...
...What has changed since I first began coaching here at Harvard," Parker says, "is the quality of the people in the rowing program. We've been lucky to consistently field four boats of people committed to crew...
...there are some cautionary notes. Critic Robert M. Parker Jr., an early enthusiast of Australian wines, has a relatively cool appraisal of recent vintages in the February issue of his bimonthly Wine Advocate. "I must confess," he writes, "to an overall sense of disappointment with what I tasted; there were too many standard-quality, bland wines." Parker is concerned that Australia may be endangering future excellence for the sake of today's potential profits. A relatively small group of medium- and large-size firms accounts for some 90% of Australia's wine output. Until this year, many of the independent...
Clint Eastwood stood in front of the Hotel du Cap's Eden Roc restaurant and surveyed this fairy-tale domain. As Bird, his bebop bio-pic of Jazzman Charlie Parker, was unspooling a few miles down the Riviera at the 41st Cannes Film Festival, Eastwood reminisced about the small indignities that beset a larger- than-life movie hero. On a trip to Cannes in 1985, his sponsors had set him up in a portside yacht near the Palais des Festivals. But the yacht's ceilings were too low to accommodate his 6-ft. 4-in. frame, even when he stooped...
...Fortune, Eastwood the auteur is an imposing ambassador for American star quality. It so happens that the film he brought to Cannes, which he directed but does not appear in, is no great shakes. It meanders like a 2- hr. 43-min. sax solo by one of Parker's lesser disciples, and it never quite explains how Parker enriched the language of sound. Still, the film was well received, and Bird was expected to win one of the top prizes. Instead, the Palme d'Or went to the Danish film Pelle the Conqueror, and Bird was given lesser awards...