Word: lifeguards
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...what people thought were shark attacks--began to come in from all around the U.S. On July 15 a surfer was apparently bitten on the leg a few miles from the site of Jessie's attack. The next day another surfer was attacked off San Diego. Then a lifeguard on Long Island, N.Y., was bitten by what some thought was a thresher shark. Last Wednesday a 12-ft. tiger shark chased spear fishers in Hawaii. News crews stood on the sand to interview experts, who declared over and over that sharks killed only 10 people worldwide...
...suppose it doesn’t help my case that my best friend, her skin now a succulent honey color, works as a lifeguard at the YMCA, while I work a 9-to-5 summer job at the local public library. I am a doubly cursed pale nerd for being both a Harvard student and a librarian. But I thoroughly enjoy researching local history in the reference department and helping with the summer reading program in the children’s department. My work provides me with a warm, inner glow, and the modest fluorescent light bulbs and the wavering...
...commemorative tuxedo-clad Ken doll, expected to land in stores in June. Fortieth-anniversary Ken will be sold with a tiny replica of the very first Ken, who wore a red bathing suit with a yellow towel. Over the years, Ken has come in many versions, including soldier Ken, lifeguard Ken, Olympic skater Ken, sailor Ken and even cowboy Ken--in short, all the Village People. Curiously, he and Barbie never married...
...reward challenge? Jerri and Nick barking orders from lifeguard chairs to blindfolded teammates charged with a variety of inane tasks. It ended in hidden tears, as Amber - big surprise - blanked out in the clutch and stumbled around while Kucha walked away with the product-placement picnic...
MacIvor uses rhythmic speech throughout, as the men play off one another's lines and often recite lines together. With a minimal set, consisting only of a lifeguard stand and two chairs, the scenes are instead set by words, often spoken by the referee. The beach, the setting of a long ago tragedy, is particularly set by the repeated lines "Here is the beach. Here...