In "Mad Max: Fury Road," the Polecats — aggressors who arc from one vehicle to another, in mid-race, on the end of long stakes — are the descendants of Buster Keaton, who, in "Three Ages," fell from a roof through three awnings and clutched at a drainpipe, which swung him out into the void and back through an open window.
Among the games is a drainpipe slide which whizzes you from the upstairs bath to the garden below; the Karaoke Disco Shower, in which you can sing, get clean and be admired doing both things by screen-watching pals; the "Tellyscope II" which asks young visitors to throw bean bags at a target: if they get three bulls'-eyes, a television set comes trundling out of the wall.
Done in the mid-1960's, it has spun off several auxiliary drawings, one of them a soft, wimpy version (1966); another a "Drainpipe -- Dream State" (1967), which shows a drainpipe morphing into a lively nude as she emerges like a butterfly from the cocoon of the tubing.
He also mentioned that few of the established models were thin enough to wear his latest couture suits, which feature long drainpipe sleeves and narrow skirts gathered in folds above the knee, and that even Natalia Vodianova had to shed 10 pounds, presumably in baby fat.
Or perhaps they're being set off by the blue Stella McCartney (drainpipe) trouser suit she is wearing, which itself is being set off by a pair of black stiletto ankle boots.
It's not a million miles, either, from the guttural, drainpipe sounds perfected by death metal vocalists, which explains why Hanggai are possibly the only Womad act also regularly invited to appear at heavy metal festivals.
Recent studies have shown that this water, which flows deep into the ice through natural drainpipes called moulins, allows the ice to slide faster over bedrock toward the ocean.
Place drainpipes along the inside and the outside of the footing, which is the rubble or gravel at the bottom of the construction trench below the foundation.
Across Moscow, locals scuttle from A to B avoiding the huge phallic icicles which jut into the street from the spouts of drainpipes.
Freddie had a crinkle of red hair and adenoidal breathing, which made him sound as if his nose were a clogged drainpipe.
Instead of using our drainpipes, the guys at the forge had used their own pipes, one of which had a spigot jammed down inside it.
