Word: sleekly
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...captain of our sleek vaporetto motorboat deftly steered us to the private dock of the Hotel Gritti Palace. After our first-class flight on Delta Air Lines, my wife and I were rested and looking forward to celebrating New Year's at this world-renowned palazzo located on the Grand Canal in Venice. In minutes, we were comfortably ensconced in our spectacular room overlooking the canal, replete with Frette linens, Ginori porcelain, thick cotton robes and towels in the pink-marbled bathroom and an immense, multicolored Murano glass chandelier in the bedroom. There was also a chilled bottle of Ferrari...
...WORLD TRADE BRIDGE Toll collector Robert Fuentes unlocks the grimy padlock and unloops heavy chains at the gate to the bridge--one of five busy spans. The bridge is 13 months old and reveals just how open--and closed--the border is these days. It's sleek, wide, built for speed and highly efficient: regular semis have electronic passes that let them zip right through. But the bridge is also slung with concertina wire; 55 state and federal agencies--from the irs to the FDA--have offices in town. Here only Customs and the National Guard carry side arms...
...Marcos, California, to their new owners. The dolls' creator, 32-year-old Matt McMullen, is disarmingly normal. Wearing a baseball cap and faded jeans, he looks more grunge rocker than sleaze merchant. His merchandise, on the other hand, is way out there. The five body types range from sleek nymphets to one whose upper deck would make Anna Nicole Smith insecure. "We've actually scaled back from making the biggest one," says McMullen. "It was a little out of control." Cupping the pendulous breasts, which feel like, uh, breasts, I have to agree. They transcend Dolly. They mock Pamela...
...Chuck Houghton who took me out the other day. A couple of years ago, I went through his factory and drooled a bit over the sleek Edwardian numbers, which have fiberglass hulls but are fitted out with the varnish and brass of the loveliest wooden boats. The boat we had on the river the other day was Elco's cheapest picnic model (well, cheap is relative, it costs $30,000 - think of it as a stripped-down SUV), but I drooled over that one as well - its elegance of design and motion through the water. More and more American lakes...
...digital-camera division has yet to enter the black. "If you look at the hardware business alone, you'd probably never get into it," says Willy Shih, head of Kodak's Digital and Applied Imaging unit. Kodak is the worldwide leader in film cameras and has lately produced some sleek units. But in digital, Kodak trails Sony in the U.S. and blew the Christmas season because it was slow to offer the hot-selling, lower-priced, low-resolution digital models used mostly for capturing and e-mailing photos...