Word: rackingly
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...trio of French clowns, Les Macloma, is tiresome in its first two appearances, beguiling in its third (a snatch of music played on two balloons and a one-string violin). But John Gilkey, Quidam's emcee, is a gawky delight, especially in a dance routine with a hat rack. Gilkey knows that the body is a deft comic instrument, even as the charming Chinese girls who do the "diabolos" routine (spinning a toy on a string while prancing nonstop in short skirts and Tin Woodman hats) know how to make this precision aerobic workout seem like schoolyard...
...price, for those already paying for Internet access, is probably right. Net users pay at least $20 a month for bare-bones access, and users of commercial online services, which charge by the hour, can rack up huge monthly bills. Cable modems, for about $35 a month, not only deliver dramatically faster performance, but also, like cable TV, are "on" 24 hours a day with no extra-usage charge. Time Warner Cable president Glenn Britt says the Akron rollout has a waiting list 1,800 names long...
...electronic ignitions have made matches passe; contraptions like the Camp Kitchen from Coleman, the Kansas-based gear purveyor, allow any hiker to play Martha Stewart. The portable kitchen weighs only 35 lbs. and yet contains 6 ft. of counter space, a sink, stove space, storage shelves, a paper-towel rack, a set of backgammon and a set of checkers. It all fits in a suitcase-size carrier. At $199 the movable diner is one of the company's best sellers...
...reach of anyone without a staff, or who sleeps more than Martha's four hours a night, that there is no obligation to actually do it. Being in Martha's thrall is like buying a treadmill and instantly feeling fit even though it serves mainly as a coat rack; acquiring the Martha oeuvre makes you think you will conduct a beautiful domestic symphony one of these days--when the kids grow up, when you lose your day job and perhaps the lunkhead you've married who likes meat loaf and ketchup. The magazine and television show bearing her name...
...horseshoe-type, steel alloy key lock on your bicycle. Lock it to something stationary and solid enough to resist bolt cutters, such as a sign post, iron fence or bike rack...