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...synthetic) slab helps keep the mouse moving smoothly, and prevents dust from accumulating on the mouse's main moving part. Also useful for mouse improvement is a new set of the little teflon feet on each corner of the mouse ($3) they will also improve the mouse's glide, whether on a special pad or just a desktop...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Holiday Gift Ideas for That `Significant Other' | 12/3/1986 | See Source »

Limousines glide up to the curb on Manhattan's East Side, disgorging a platoon, perhaps even a battalion, of the richest inhabitants of the planet. A seasoned observer estimates that the crowd rushing inside includes at least 100 people worth more than $50 million apiece. The fall art-auction season -- the "shark feed," as Connoisseur Editor Thomas Hoving calls it -- is at gavel pitch, and once again great works, and some not so great, are going, going . . . gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Do I Hear $5 Million? Sold! | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...seemed to glide across the floor, a vision of serene stylishness floating through a succession of spacious rooms. Now, 23 years after retiring, Loretta Young is returning to the limelight with the same graciousness that marked the opening sequence of her acclaimed television series, The Loretta Young Show. She is on location in Canada to film Christmas Eve, an NBC-TV movie scheduled to air in December, about an eccentric rich woman who goes to extraordinary lengths to reunite her family for Christmas. What finally brought Young back to the camera at age 73? "Maybe I was getting bored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 10, 1986 | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

Taking a page from world-class swimmers, several team members have gotten haircuts and shaved their body hair so they can glide through the water more easily...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Aquadudes Armed for Easterns | 11/8/1986 | See Source »

CAMERON HAPPENS to be a gun enthusiast. In interviews he can go on and on about calibres and muzzle velocities, incessantly rattling off brand names and model years. In his films he'll glide the camera lovingly over the polished aluminum and gleaming steel; he'll make them central characters. Rambo's trusty bow was a Cameron invention, and for Aliens, Cameron designed the "smart-guns" and "pulse-rifles" himself. That explains the sport shop scene...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: Cameron's Little Camera of Horrors | 10/17/1986 | See Source »

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