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Have you noticed that baseball players are getting better looking? The old style -- paunchy Babe Ruth, ferrety Bob Feller, the sunken Dust Bowl visages of players in the '30s -- has surrendered to today's sleek, chipper California look. Keith Hernandez, Dave Righetti, Jose Canseco, Dale Murphy, Rafael Palmeiro and a hundred others have the handsomeness of soap-opera stars. And their fine swagger italicizes the sexiness of contemporary sport. These guys know they're the studs of summer...
...accounts, Jobs' new machine is an engineering marvel. People who have seen prototypes describe a sleek, black magnesium cube with a space underneath where a keyboard can be neatly hidden away, a stereo sound system that rivals the crisp tones of a compact-disc player, and a jumbo 17-inch black-and-white display screen capable of visual pyrotechnics that are often characterized as "drop dead...
...with its established models. Last month it introduced the Probe, a sporty two-door hatchback that may turn out to be nearly as successful as the Taurus. For a base price of $10,459, the Probe offers front- wheel drive, a zippy but economical four-cylinder engine and the sleek, aerodynamic look of a European or Japanese import. That should not be surprising, because Ford designed and developed the Probe in a joint project with Mazda, the Japanese company in which Ford owns a 25% interest. Mazda's plant in Flat Rock, Mich., will be turning out 600 Probes...
Onstage, City Ballet justified both the sentiment and the celebration. Jerome Robbins' brilliant Glass Pieces seemed as sleek as it did at its premiere five years ago. McBride swept through George Balanchine's The Man I Love looking half her 45 years. Company Director Peter Martins came out of retirement to honor his ideal partner, Suzanne Farrell, 42, who had a new plastic hip, performing with her in his version of Sophisticated Lady, set to the Duke Ellington song. The finale, danced like fireworks by Kyra Nichols, came from Balanchine's ebullient Stars and Stripes. It was just like...
They present a sitcom study in contrasts, a political Odd Couple. He is cool; she is warm. He counts their pennies; she spends their dollars. She favors sleek high heels; he wears clunky wing tips. (One of her cardinal campaign rules is not to unpack in front of her husband, lest he see some new purchase.) His desk is as clean as a putting green; hers resembles a rummage sale of old papers. He is guarded; she is winningly open. She loves to gossip; for him, small talk is a foreign language. He is Greek Orthodox; she is Jewish...