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...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...

Author: By Kristen E. Kitchen, | Title: POSTCARD FROMWINTER PARK, FLA.: Tanless in Florida | 7/20/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 26, 2001 | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ouch! Mike — No Shrimp He — Falls on the Barbie | 3/1/2001 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Krisa Benskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Warning: Dangerous Waters | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...fact, sometimes Sydney may have taken the entertainment a tad too far. Beach volleyball had its own M.C., Lifeguard Dave, who worked the crowd on that rare day when the sunshine and four bronzed athletes a-diving were not enough. After a spectator good-naturedly heckled Chelsea Clinton for not wearing a hat, Dave called him out of the audience for a light-hearted reprimand. Dave also pioneered a new crowd move, the slow-motion wave, which is somehow much, much funnier than an ordinary wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laugh Track | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

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