Word: hovercraft
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...resembles anything but a fan. The company calls it an "air multiplier." To the average sci-fi enthusiast, it looks like a miniature replica of a stargate - but alas, this gadget does not create a wormhole that teleports people to distant worlds. (See pictures of 50 years of the hovercraft...
...pieces and transported, doesn't have its old lustrous green. "How do I make it look beautiful again?" the American asks the British lord, who replies, "Just leave it out in the rain and tend it lovingly for a thousand years." (See TIME's photos: Fifty years of the hovercraft...
...seen several sets of blue-red police lights but not a single fellow civilian. Deserted shopping complexes and the occasional pack of home-bound partiers constituted the early morning scene at the riverbank. The light of a purring black helicopter scanned the fractured sheets coating the Potomac, while a hovercraft zipped over them, fissuring the fragile ice. I imagined the FBI sweeping in and rounding us all up for trespassing. That would be a hell of a way to miss an inauguration. It turned out we had not trespassed. We emerged from under the Theodore Roosevelt bridge, tromped across Constitution...
...different. Being the veterans of three unsuccessful punch campaigns, we’d like to give you some tips. From the coveted first envelope to partying on your club’s lawn with the sleaziest pre-frosh to circling the globe in your club’s private hovercraft, Prestige and Mobility will go the extra mile. For example, be conventional. Wear clothes that look like they cost $3, but are from an era where $3 bought a house. That means powdered wigs, pocket squares, and fine Umbrian cod pieces—all of which are assets...
...Don’t be surprised when you get a confused stare. What else do you expect when your hovercraft is full of eels...