Word: crewing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Making a triumphant comeback and shocking English fans, the Crimson men's varsity heavyweight crew this Sunday stole the prestigious Royal Henley Regatta title from the University of London...
...Crimson team did just that. Pulling ahead of their English rivals by a sweeping six minutes and 35seconds, Harvard claimed the title--another to addto the long list of wins accumulated by all threeof Harvard's men's crew teams this year...
...Northern California. The storm ripped off the upper tail fin of the 785-ft. craft, which plunged slowly toward the waters of the Pacific "like a big old hen settling down on a nest," in the words of one officer. All but two of the Macon's 83-man crew managed to survive by climbing onto life rafts. The Macon's demise abruptly ended the Navy's interest in huge rigid airships...
...late 1970s. They had hung for years in Jeanne B's restaurant in Moss Landing. Several years ago, the alert wife of oceanographer Christopher Grech saw the relics and told her husband. He found Canepa, who recalled where he had snagged the pieces. The Navy's sub crew located the Macon on its first dive. Several museums have proposed joint recovery operations with the Navy so that the Macon can rise again and not be forgotten...
...movie makes sense because Towne, with the producers' blessing, does not take the time or effort to explain anything.Thunder is a collection of hastily drawn characters. Towne tell us nothing about them and then shamelessly expects us to sympathize with them. Only Duvall and Rooker, playing the wise experienced crew chief and the simple farmer turned race driver, respectively, have any significant depth to their characterization...