Word: welds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Athletic directors of Weld and Grays Halls made the original request for women's participation...
Immediately after the main event. Kirkland "A" boat rowers retired to the house of Master Arthur Smithies to drink champagne out of the Aggasiz Cup, symbol of intramural rowing supremacy at Harvard, while Kirkland's "B" boat members, less joyful, rowed the shell back to Weld Boat House...
...Weld film festivals have been held in Manhattan, and there is already something of a Tuesday Weld cult, which was partially inspired, paradoxically, by the fact that she has been so good in so many bad films. "She was undervalued year after year," says Roddy McDowall, who starred with her in Lord Love a Duck, one of her less awful movies. As a drum majorette in Pretty Poison, a fine but little-publicized 1968 film, she mixed innocence with evil to chilling effect, etching her character with acid and honey...
Like Maria, Tuesday has always had the reputation of being a difficult performer to work with. Like Maria, she has had a troubled private life that has made her something of an untouchable flower in lotus land. "Miss Weld is not a very good representative for the motion-picture industry," complained Gossip Columnist Louella Parsons, Hollywood's dragon lady, when Tuesday was 16 and the star of a seemingly endless series of sex-at-the-beach type minipics. Actually, Tuesday's sins-odd clothing, bare feet and open love affairs -would have seemed quite normal a decade later...
...above all, Tuesday Weld has survived. She has lived down her name, her image and her reputation. Says O'Neal: "She's held in very high esteem because of her survival and because she's good. She's like a war hero, and she deserves the Congressional Medal." The only thing that bothers her is-what else?-success. "If I find myself a commercial success, I'll probably go into a state of shock," she says. "If I get out of this underground thing and become commercial, I don't know what...