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...country is still overly concerned with physical appearance and height. Sales of platform shoes suggest there are many people out there who wish they were taller. The short man is a popular staple of circus freak shows. Crowds flock to basketball arenas partly to gawk at the scantily-clad seven-foot behemoths lumbering around the court...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: To Gnome is to Love 'Em | 2/15/1978 | See Source »

Best gadget of all is human one -seven-foot thug with preternatural strength and steel teeth, which he uses to snap victims' spinal cords. Name: Jaws. Orthodontist's nightmare. Running gag is that each time he is dispatched-trapped in building cave-in, flung from speeding train, tossed into shark tank, even torpedoed-Jaws (Richard Kiel) implacably reappears. In his silly, mechanical, likable way, a perfect symbol for Bond films. They're attacked, dismissed, put out of mind, but keep coming back and back and back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Giggles, Wiggles, Bubbles and Bond | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...trolley left them at a deserted stop in the middle of suburbia, and it took them some wandering through the broad residential streets to find Pine Manor. After following a few dead ends, and raising a few homeowners' wrath by cutting through their yards, they arrived at a seven-foot high chain link fence surrounding what appeared to be college dorms nestled in the rolling, wooded campus. The terrain was carefully landscaped and the neat asphalt walkways beyond the fence were well-lit, although no one seemed to be using them...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Taking the party line on women's colleges | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

Busdriver Pat Lindquist and four passengers on his sight-seeing bus saw the seven-foot tall, 500-lb. creature when it emerged from the woods bordering on the highway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Furry Beast | 5/18/1977 | See Source »

...face it, there is a physical difference that in some sports leaves women at a disadvantage. Women just don't grow to seven-foot heights as often as men, and on the basketball court women cannot expect to compete evenly with the men because they are simply outsized. In other sports like track, golf, swimming and tennis, the best women are not equal to their male counterparts. But whether they can attain equality is a judgment that need not be made--equal or not, women's sports will still have a market...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: The Way We Were and the Way We May Be | 3/31/1977 | See Source »

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