Word: decks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment he first stepped foot on the IAB pool deck and teammate Bobby Hackett mistook him for a member of the AAU Gators junior high contingent, the slightly-built newcomer realized lack of bulk might be a problem. After a few laps spent trying to keep up with the Harvard swim team, Roberts discovered he had bigger problems to contend with...
...floor, to specialize in the various stages of production. While Dodge Main once housed its own foundry, sewing room and stamping plant, it now became an assembly plant. In a good year, like 1973, it could pour 511,000 cars out onto the second-floor inspection deck. But in bad years, which most have been lately for Chrysler, the plant cost a bundle. It had 32 freight elevators to carry people and parts from floor to floor. In winter it leaked heat from a thousand windows. Says a Chrysler production man, Jim Caton: "This place goes back to when coal...
Schrader paces his film like a march through a rain forest, pausing every few yards to admire the "architecture" of Southern California. Each sequence begins with unnecessary shots of buildings, deck chairs and doorways, and enough driving to explain last summer's gas shortage. The movement of Schrader's camera is confused, boring in with a point of view, then halting to let the scene develop. It races past a row of Westwood parking meters trying vainly to create tension, and hacks its way through a Gere/Hutton sex sequence. In one nice touch, though, the Gigolo voices have a stupid...
Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin soared somewhere into the upper deck while simultaneously calling time out and began his night-long feud with the men in the striped shirts. So the downhill Harvard race continued...
...bottles on wire in preparation for taking water samples. Tied weight to wire. Entered sample data on report form. Attended science lecture. Climbed rigging 40 ft. above deck to change light bulbs in the foremast shroud...