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Liberation. Exhilaration. The feeling of euphoria -- and a hint of danger. For enthusiasts like Rafael Roig, 29, a New York City writer, a sleek new breed of roller skates can inspire rhapsodies. The wheeled wonders are called Rollerblades, and sales are hot. Unlike conventional skates, with their side- by-side wheel configuration, "in-line" blades have a single row of polyurethane rollers. More like ice skates than the clunky wheels of roller rinks past, the blades are faster and more maneuverable. Says writer Roig: "At certain moments, I do have the feeling of ecstasy...
...high noon on Aug. 24, thousands of spectators are expected to line the banks of the Chicago River to witness a colorful moment in the annals of water sports. At the sound of an air horn, the waters will surge with the sleek forms of 30,000 highly competitive rubber ducks...
...synched?), and quite a bit more about how slickly the New Kids have been packaged and sold. The financial phenomenon of the New Kids is part of the total experience. As performers, Knight and his brother Jonathan, 21, Wood, 21, Donnie Wahlberg, 20, and Joseph McIntyre, 17, are as sleek, nimble and nifty as a pair of Air Jordans. The audience, overwhelmingly white female, is invited to enjoy their moves and their music. But their stage show, which has charm and vitality, is an unabashed commercial celebration of making...
ANOTHER 48 HRS. You know a movie is in trouble when always rumpled Nick Nolte looks to be in better shape than once sleek Eddie Murphy. A pity: the great black hope of the '80s seems to have phoned in his performance from a stretch limo on its way to ex-stardom...
...first two-thirds, Total Recall has it all: the sleek confidence of big-budget picture making at its most inventive. It zaps out beguiling images so quickly that viewers may want to see the film over again right away, just to catch what they missed. Verhoeven seems to have assumed that today's moviegoers have a megabyte media intelligence; then he worked like crazy to overload it. When Total Recall is cooking, it induces visual vertigo...