Word: lighter
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...line. Their reports: HIS SIDE: My first date - let's call her "Brownie" - spends our entire 180-second relationship reminiscing about her failed camp fire girl youth. The 26-year-old speaks plaintively about the stiff breeze long ago that blew away her one shot as the camp-fire lighter. She doesn't light my fire, either. Getting nowhere (fast, of course), I do what every self-disrespecting male would do. I lie. I call myself a rich lawyer and sit down with "Sugarmuffin," the prettiest of my seven dates. Sadly, her own job as a legal secretary throws...
...King: Al Hirschfeld," fellow cartoonist Jules Feiffer rightly opined, "The only glamour left in the theater is what Al brings to it. And he is to what he does what Astaire was to what he did. Al has the same effortlessness, the same grace, the same wit, and that lighter-than-air quality." True enough. Hirschfeld put motion and emotion in all his still-lifes, infused buoyancy and elan in a weighty Sunday newspaper - The New York Times, whose Arts and Leisure section he had adorned and, heaven knows, enlivened for three quarters of a century...
...minute like a white-collar kleptomaniac. What's worth more than you're ever likely to lift from a wallet, owned by an increasing number of your co-workers and often left sitting on their desks at lunchtime? That's right: a laptop computer. Laptops are getting smaller, lighter and easier to conceal. Many electronics stores will buy them for their used and refurbished sections. Heck, even the irs has lost 2,332 laptops in the past three years. Who is going to miss one more...
SMOLIK: You'll need companion technologies. Hybrid fuel cells won't do very well if the car weighs a ton, right? We've developed lighter-weight composite materials that enable cars to have higher fuel efficiency...
Before a joint session of the legislature gathered in the House chamber, he delivered a 15-minute inaugural address that shied away from specific policy proposals and focused on his plans to fashion a “lighter, more agile bureaucracy...