Word: sleeked
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...PDAS (personal digital assistants), these wireless, hand-held PCs function as everything from a checkbook organizer to a fax machine. In many cases, the pen-based devices can even make and take cellular telephone calls. ! 8 Bose Audio System Listeners got an earful from Bose as it unveiled the sleek Lifestyle 5 Music System. At $1,499, it includes a compact-disc player, a remote control that works around corners or through walls, and compact, cube-shaped speakers that deliver crisp, distortion-free sound...
...DECORATING FOR THE DOGS? When designer Kim Bull couldn't find suitable sleeping quarters for her mutt, she started Wowbow, a line of sleek acrylic beds, below. They're part of a new crop of fancy pet furniture that includes English-style beds from Cath Kidston (cathkidston.com) and hip variations like Fatboy's camouflage-print beanbag lounges (muttropolis.com...
...response to last Saturday's earthquake in northern Pakistan, the U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan quickly diverted eight helicopters-cargo-lifting twin-engine Chinooks and sleek Blackhawks-to help with relief work in the Pakistani Himalayas...
...little more expensive than traditional taxis," concedes Cyril Masson, head of Citybird, "but we save our clients so much time, it's worth it." Just ask the executives from Herm?s and Veuve Clicquot, or the celebrities and politicians who have been spotted on sleek Suzuki Burgman 650s or mighty Honda Goldwing 1800s, and they'll probably agree?there's nothing like going fast and looking cool at the same time. Citybird: tel: (33-1) 72 03 02 94, www.city-bird.com; Motojet: tel: (33-1) 40 27 09 09, www.moto-jet.com; PLD: tel: (33-6) 60 35 27 48, www.pld92.com; H?g? Service...
...exception to that rule is the sleek and smoothly menacing Frank Langella, playing the founder and chairman of CBS, William Paley. It is quite wonderful to watch Langella slowly, slowly slip off his velvet gloves to reveal the mailed fists of media proprietorship. In those passages the movie achieves the melodramatic intensity--and a certain sophistication about the uses and abuses of power--that is nowhere else evident...