The streak has made the reigning champs larger than life, even drawing attention away from college basketball's postseason during what's usually a quiet time in the NBA schedule.

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Although he ambles around Whitechapel in his brown hat and green jacket with a six-shooter strapped to his waist, it was the mustache (he would never grow one for himself), and Warlow's larger-than-life concept of Jackson, that made things come alive for Rothenberg.

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She appears larger than life with a green face on the head of spider, whose legs are made of yellow, orange and black tubes.

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