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Executives in search of a thrill are buying "hot rod" gaming PCs that are about 20 times as fast as the average office machine and sport sleek cases and paint jobs that suggest racing cars. The PCs are made to optimize the wild 3-D graphics and surround sound of video games like Grand Theft Auto 2 and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (and of course they can handle any spreadsheet or logo redesign). Made by private companies like Falcon Northwest, based in Ashland, Ore., and Alienware in Miami, gaming computers are custom assembled and can be personalized with...
...reason we can't get to 40%." Already, one-fourth of the world's cellular phones are sold here, and there are still plenty of customers like Shanghai high school student Song Yuyun. "Out with the old, in with the new," she said recently as she examined a sleek new phone to replace her older model. "I should be coming into some money over Chinese New Year." If only China's silent majority had the same expectations...
...with President George W. Bush” T-shirts, mouse pads, golf balls and glass tumblers; the “Across America: W’O4” interstate collection of magnets, racing T’s, sweatshirts and—believe it or not—cufflinks; the sleek monochromatic “W” line complete with sterling belt buckles, microfiber jackets, running shorts and tote bags for your modern businesswoman on the go; the country western line of bandanas, bolo ties, leather coasters and, of course, cowboy hats; and finally, the sporty and stylish...
...fangs of ornate snake-candelabra, or coyly veiled in rice paper (wasn’t it Woody Allen who used a red light bulb as a sexual expedient in Annie Hall?). On the far wall hang paintings of frolicking figures in prurient postures, Matissean dancers in revelry. Overhead, Starck-sleek fans of brushed steel revolve with drawing-room languor, conspicuously at odds with the clamor and chatter below. And diffusing throughout the room, holding the whole tenuously cohesive mess together, there is slinky drum-and-bass music to vegetate...
...With a notebook computer open on the desk in front of him, Aa Gym hardly pauses for breath as he tapes 13 sleek homilies in a row, all exactly timed to 11/2 minutes with the help of an aide crouching in front of his desk with a stopwatch. "I could make 40 or 60 in a row if I had to," he says, squatting to pose with the children of two families of admirers who have traveled from distant Sulawesi to catch a glimpse of him. "It's easy for me to give those speeches because I do those things...