Word: sleekly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case focuses on $12.5 million that investors put up for research and development of the DeLorean, a sleek, stainless-steel sports car with distinctive gull-wing doors. The indictment charges that beginning in 1978 DeLorean funneled much of that money into a mysterious Panamanian company called GPD Services, which in turn deposited the funds at the Pierson Bank in Amsterdam. Eventually, $8.9 million went from that bank into DeLorean's personal account at New York's Citibank. Of that amount, the indictment says, DeLorean used $7.5 million to buy Utah-based Logan Manufacturing, which makes equipment for maintaining ski slopes...
...with Crockett and Tubbs in a car, lay some music over it, and I think they should drive somewhere.' I came up with the idea of using a Phil Collins tune, In the Air Tonight." The song, combined with striking shots of the street lights glinting off the detectives' sleek black Ferrari, gave the scene a mournful resonance. Says Carter: "That is probably the prototypical Miami Vice sequence...
...rain stopped, the sun showed, a pistol spat and Lake Michigan fairly boiled with sleek, flashing bodies, the women in green caps, the men in orange. Out of the water and onto the bikes, they hurled themselves through encouraging throngs: "Lookin' good! Keep it up!" One biker wore a helmet that looked like a silver tear cut in half, something Mercury himself might have favored. Off the bikes, pulling on running shoes, they shattered records in tying laces. Then they tore off on foot, the sound of their hearts pounding in their ears. Scott Molina was first to finish...
...like The War of the Worlds (produced by the Hungarian George Pal) or grandiose melodramas like Written on the Wind (directed by the Dane Douglas Sirk) or effervescent comedies like Some Like It Hot and The Apartment (both directed and co-written by the Austrian Billy Wilder) or the sleek thrillers of London-born Alfred Hitchcock. Audrey Hepburn, from Belgium, was crowned princess of the box office; Cary Grant, from Bristol, was still the monarch of masculinity. Everyone was so assimilated that you couldn't spot the immigrants without a security check. American films, once an obsession, were...
Hundreds of competitors entered as professionals, solemnly defined as "teachers and graduate students in aeronautics and related fields, as well as engineers, designers and others employed in the aerospace industry." One was James Zongker from the Boeing Co. Wichita plant. His sleek "X-21Bmk-5" recently set the Guinness indoor record for distance (164 ft. 4 in.). Another pro was Roland Mayer, chief engineer for General Electric's military space programs, whose "Beercan Bomber," carved out of a Miller Lite can, was disqualified because of its materials but still much admired. Commercial Pilot Anthony Martin of Talkeetna, Alaska, sent along...