Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the lightweight varsity suffered its first loss to another light-weight crew, losing to the same B.U. eight they defeated three weeks ago in the Greater Boston Championships. B.U. rowed the race in 3:12.8, while Radcliffe finished second in the field of five...
...demonstrate his ability, Peer, based on a folk hero, is an yarn-spinner and boaster, and Larsen is an excellent story-teller. From the opening scene, with Peer's fib of riding astride a reindeer-buck. Larsen reveals astounding acrobatic ability, vocal control, and stage presence, lending greater weight to Ibsen's lyrical verse. His versatility becomes apparent as his mood and expression age with Peer, who bears the scars of a weather-beaten, lonely old wanderer...
Sublime Essence. Well and good; but the effort to go further, to establish Caro as the one and only serious heavy weight, can lead Caro's exegetes into some astounding cadenzas of gibberish. Thus to Michael Fried a simple cantilever structure like Caro's Prairie (1967) becomes nothing less than a metaphor of sublime essence rising above the gross sublunary earth: "Prairie defines the ground, not as that which ultimately supports everything else, but as that which does not in itself require support. It makes this fact about the ground both phenomenologically surprising and sculpturally significant...
...weight throws, Kevin McCafferty took a second in the shotput. Dan Jiggetts a third in the hammer and Dick Gillvery and Chris Queen were two and three in the discuss...
While Media and Bombay Duck were throwing their weight around in New York, the Louisiana Derby of March 22 was taken by a lightly regarded Master Derby. For horse racing myopics who are chauvinist about Eastern racing, that feat came into focus last week, when Master Derby trudged his way through the slop to win the Blue Grass Stakes, his fifth consecutive victory and an important Derby prep...