Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK: Sue Porter stroked the JVas heavyweight Captain Debbie Porterfield movedback into the varsity shell after being out forthe majority of the season with a backinjury...The lightweights scrimmaged against theBoston Rowing Club this past Saturday inpreparation for the Sprints. The lightweight eightstayed even with an, eight that included thevarsity light four and four national team rowers
...elsewhere, Updike displays the shapeliness and poetic perception that make him a master of this demanding form. More Stately Mansions is balanced on two provocative images, a cross section of a nautilus shell and a big Victorian house, "with all its rooms and this naked freckled woman waiting in one of its chambers." The story itself has the nacreous quality of an old memory; the narrator, a biology teacher in a declining New England mill town, recalls his affair with a California woman who is married to the city's last factory owner. The period is the early '70s with...
...shell which did get it together yesterday was the Crimson junior varsity. The JV's time of 5:26.7 was nearly two seconds faster than Penn's unit, and more than 14 seconds quicker than Navy...
...three weeks, the Harvard heavyweights were flying high. In winning the San Diego Crew Classic during Spring Break, the varsity shell had out-raced most of the other top boats in the country, and was justifiably considered the best in the East...
...years her senior. Gloria also holds hands with Orson Welles and spends some wee, small hours of the morning with Frank Sinatra. The armor of such black, white and occasional gray knights is not deeply penetrated. Vanderbilt is more absorbed in her younger self, which she encases in a shell of hard, polished prose. It is a stylish, though distinctly cool, portrayal of the realities of a fairy-tale life...