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...dappled pool not far from the clamor of Waikiki Beach, two female dolphins poke their heads out of the water, waiting for a command. "O.K.," says Louis Herman, founder and director of the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory, "now let's try a tandem creative." Two graduate students, positioned at opposite ends of the 50-ft. tank, throw full body and soul into communicating this message to the animals, Phoenix and Akeakamai. First the humans ask the dolphins to pay attention by holding a finger high in the air. Then they tap the index fingers of each hand together, forming...
Gina V. Sanchez '94, one of the co-chairs of Eliot's house committee, said Eliot does not contain the "traditional stuffy atmosphere" and that the stereotype was "something that we all poke...
Attention baby boomer: you're not a kid anymore. Lee's ads poke gentle fun at this, ah, growing market. We've all been there. Dad sits down to watch TV in his old jeans and his top button flies off, ricocheting around the room like a bullet. A woman struggling to get into her too tight jeans keeps her date waiting so long that he meets and marries her roommate. If only she'd had Easy Riders...
...their most deliberately Anglicized. It is not only the Merseyside accent (which is perceptibly stronger when Morrissey declares lightly: "I'd like to drop my trousers to the Queen,") or the Wodehouse-like phrases ("you're the bee's knees"), but also the sly double meanings which continually poke fun at British culture. "Two lumps, please," Morrissey declares soulfully, in "Reel Around the Fountain," referring to a cup of tea and a sexual partner at the same time...
...think it's a funny game at all we play here," says Richard B. Boardman, director of the Harvard College Fund. "It's very serious stuff...and people want to poke fun at it, like Time magazine and the Harvard Lampoon...