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Finally, just after 6 p.m. Friday, De Lorean walked out of Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution in Los Angeles and into a perfectly sleek black Jaguar with his wife Cristina and his pal Roy Nesseth. And then, punctuation for one chapter in a tale that has seemed like implausible fiction from the start: their Jaguar, with Nesseth driving, was hit by a Cadillac, which was in turn struck by a CBS News crew's car. No one was hurt...
...neophyte jogger, desirous of meeting some of the sleek, colorful bodies that bob alongslide the Charles every day, the University's newest sports organization could be just what you need...
Many other factors were involved in the car's demise, not the least of which was the DMC-12 itself. True enough, it was sleek and racy, with a stainless-steel skin, a corrosion-resistant, glass-reinforced plastic underbody, a 130-h.p. Renault engine and gull-wing swing-up doors borrowed from the 1954 Mercedes sport coupe. But, doors aside, car critics could find nothing distinctive or terribly special about it. One described it as "clunky." Still, the car had its fans...
...official art as such. Stalin and the Muses-showing Clio, muse of history, presenting a volume for revision to the mustachioed god in his transcendent white military greatcoat-is "objectively" a hilarious spoof, done in clumsily tight parody of the 17th century grand manner. But then, if these sleek pictorial tropes are I so absurd when lavished on Stalin, why should they be any less so when used on Louis XIV, Peter the Great or Sany other enlightened despot...
Until Saturday, the Harvard women's volleyball team had been performing like a finely tuned, sleek and sophisticated imported automobile. But at Williams, the spikers--zipping along at about 60 m.p.h.--lost control of the wheel and smashed into a brick wall. And that's when Crimson Coach Karyn Altman realizd that it was time for an overhaul...