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They have become assets to the team, not only in the pool but also out of it. The Wookies can be pranksters while on deck. Once during swimming practice they decided to hide from everybody inside two eight-foot stacks of innertubes...
...Delia has risen and, to the astonishment of all, begun singing Harry Belafonte's banana-boat hit of 30 years past. Work all night on a drink of rum! Now the entire party, pulsing with the calypso beat, dances around the table like frenzied Jamaican dockworkers. Lift six-foot, seven-foot, eight-foot bunch! Monstrous arms spring out of the shrimp tureens and leech onto the faces of the revelers. Who on earth has possessed them...
CLIMBING THE stairs to the second floor of the exhibit, the viewer is confronted by 10 "costume dramas," enormous, eight-foot tall color fashion photos. From the rosy-checked all-American girl to the angry looking woman with the blonde hair in her face, Sherman has perfected what she calls the look of "anti-glamour." Many of these works were commissioned by Paris fashion designers, and Sherman's seems to have deliberately tried to make herself look ugly in their glamorous clothes...
...world that most students never see. Down in the tunnels connecting almost every Harvard building, you can hear no noise from the street, feel no breeze, smell nothing. The air is humid and temperatures in the tunnels reach 120 degrees in the places, creating a tropical atmosphere. The eight-foot gray concrete walls shelter the University's vital organs--steam, water, and electric lines...
...ridiculously gratuitous, but actually funny scene, Ken is faced with a sad picture of social reality while selling stereos. A streetpunk enters the store, ready to be conned into spending all his allowance on speakers. Ken easily convinces him that bigger is better, and introduces him to the eight-foot Dominator speaker. The kid practically drools, violently playing air-guitar, ready to fork over his grandmother, when in walks his girlfriend, 17, barefoot and pregnant. Stricken with remorse, Ken turns down the heavy metal that throbs from the Dominator, and shows the underpriveleged couple a smaller model...