Word: sleekly
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...Files, now in its eighth season, the drift had arguably already set in. It was among the most relevant dramas of the 1990s, a sleek buddy-cop variation whose conspiracy motif captured a mood of civic mistrust that ranged from Perotistas to militias. But last year the investigation by Duchovny's Fox Mulder and his partner Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) into a government-and-alien cabal went from teasingly ambiguous to meandering, and the stars seemed restless. "I was done. I wanted to move on," says Anderson, who says this season's changes have energized her. "Everybody...
MUSIC MAKER As if remembering dozens of numbers and surfing the Web weren't enough, wireless phones can now play music, thanks to MP3 player accessories. Ericsson's sleek, brushed-metal MP3 player ($199 at ericssonus.com is designed to work with three of its newest phones. It plays MP3s stored on tiny 32-MB disks, which can hold 30 minutes of music. When a call comes in, the music stops and the earphones do double duty as a hands-free earpiece and mike. A cell phone's work is never done...
BOSTON--Beside a windswept pier aboard the sleek "Spirit of Boston," Bostonians attempted to set a new Guinness world record for the "World's Largest Tea Party" Saturday...
...large slingshot, which sent fish out 50 yds. in all directions. They took him on training swims behind a boat to build up his stamina and speed. In May a gate was opened in the barrier. Keiko, who had exchanged his wide, cuddly aquarium shape for that of a sleek, fit predator, went for his first "walk...
...Here is a fable: A sleek and prosperous President, a champion political swimmer, is about to cross the river. Two scorpions come to him and beg him to let them ride on his back across the river...