Word: ferrari
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...keyboards can cost upwards of $3,000, general consumer models for the "hobbyist" market usually go for a couple of hundred dollars. Besides having model numbers that make them sound like racing cars, boards like the Yamaha DX7IIFD look like the instrument panel of a new Ferrari prototype. The Roland E-20 ($2,500) even has a liquid-crystal display window that flashes such information as the chord being played and the tempo being used, expressed in beats per minute. Looking at a readout to see what chord you are playing can be a hotdog move, like a weekend racer...
...Jordan's delight in the sport is not the main reason he plays basketball. Competition drives Michael Jordan. Incessantly. Whether on the court or weaving his bright red Ferrari Testarossa in and out of Chicago's midday traffic or even putting golf balls on the Astroturf green in his basement, he is constantly testing himself and the opposition. Sometimes that burning competitive drive overrides Jordan's legendary coolness. Last year during a full-court scrimmage with teammates, Jordan stormed out of practice after angrily accusing coach Doug Collins of miscounting the score. Jordan finds motivation for the court each night...
Instead, this promises to be the Year of the Classic Toy. Come Christmas morning, living rooms will be spread with some new variations on some old favorites: Lionel trains snaking around the tree, Barbie waving from her red Ferrari, G.I. Joe rappelling from the chimney with care. There will be Lego castles aloft by Christmas dinnertime, cabins carved of Lincoln Logs, and portraits etched on the Etch A Sketch. Even some new hits, like Lewis Galoob's Micro Machines, are souped-up successors to such staples as Matchbox cars. "All these toys have predictable long life," says Peter Harris, president...
...provocative message advised by a hard- bitten political agnostic for whom election to office has become not a means but an end. While Jackson campaigns as champion of the dispossessed, the deliciously flamboyant Brown drapes himself in $1,500 Brioni suits, roars around Sacramento in a $100,000 crimson Ferrari and squires striking women half his age. This extravagant life-style is certainly not financed by his $37,105 state salary, but rather by the wealthy special interests whose influence Jackson regularly decries...
Harvard had pulled its Ferrari onto route rout. Meanwhile, Adelphi was trudging along heartbreak highway, its thumb extended in the cold breeze...