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...sure, the phrase conveys the destruction that the Harvard lights have destruction that the Harvard lights have wreaked on Eastern rowing by winning three straight sprint titles, although somehow Belushi is not the right symbol for a sleek, delicate racing shell knifing through the water...
...reduced to radio broadcasts for his news, most of it bad or even worse, indifferent to his existence. Daily, however, his royal host, King Hassan II, drives over to Dar es Salaam Palace for a tete-a-tete, often chauffeuring himself in a sleek Mercedes 4505E with only a chihuahua lap dog as sentinel. There is an occasional family excursion into the Middle Atlas Mountains, but this involves screaming sirens and two limousine loads of jittery security guards scarcely a soothing outing. At home at the palace, 200 Moroccan troops are on guard duty...
Newbury Street is Boston's answer to New York's Fifth Avenue, Rome's Via Veneto, and Paris' Champs Elysees. Running through the Back Bay section of the city, Newbury Street is posh, elegant, sleek, and luxurious. It's here that you'll find furs from Kakas, diamonds from Shreves, and shoes from Gucci...
...literary periodicals recalled in this lively chronicle range from Partisan Review, left-wing and loudly ideological at its birth in 1934, to Paris Review, a sleek '50s expatriate now based in New York. An entry on John Crowe Ransom reports that the poet started the Kenyon Review because he thought Partisan Review too flashy. Robert Creeley, founder of the Black Mountain Review, says that "to be published in the Kenyan Review was too much like being 'tapped' for a fraternity." United only in their dislike of New York publishing and each other, the little magazines were starting...
From ocean to ocean and at countless riversides and lakefronts in between, the sizes, shapes, designs and origins of live-aboard boats could fill pages in Lloyd's Register of Ships. They range from Chinese junks to sleek power cruisers, from 30-ft. sailboats to converted trawlers. At Waldo Point, just north of San Francisco, Sandy White, 32, a businesswoman, lives aboard a 41-year-old, 62-ft. former naval ferry that she bought for $4,500 in 1972 and has since spent some $50,000 to refurbish; it boasts a living room big enough for a central stove...