Word: sleekness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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White and delicate, high tech yet oddly primitive, the plane looks like some elegant insect or a sleek, latter-day pterodactyl. With her reedlike central wing slicing across three slender cylinders, she might have been designed by an austere modern sculptor rather than an aeronautical engineer. In an age of space travel and supersonic flight, her mission is a throwback to a different kind of odyssey: to fly not faster, but longer. Not higher, but farther. Voyager is a flight of fancy, of quaint possibility...
...their jewelry in department stores, is also rising fast. Sales of Wendy Gell's ornate baubles, which cost from $25 to $5,000, are up 40% this year. Some of her best-known designs feature thousands of small rhinestones clustered around a crystal centerpiece. Jay Feinberg's simple and sleek Austrian-crystal jewelry, priced from $20 to $500, is popular at such upscale outlets as Neiman-Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. While many faux pieces are original designs (Lane's big sellers this season are animals, bows and flowers), some are direct copies of the real glitter sold by such...
...Most of Chrysler's 1986 models were indeed carryover designs from the previous season, but this year the automaker came up with several fresh new vehicles on the K-car chassis. "There's our glory boy for '87," crowed Iacocca at the Texas Stadium show as he introduced the sleek, sporty LeBaron coupe (base price: $11,295). Other well received new models, introduced last summer, include the Dodge Shadow ($7,499) and Plymouth Sundance ($7,599) compacts...
...looks a bit like a skinny dinghy with a spinnaker. But while sleek 12- meter racing yachts were battling the stormy seas off the western coast of Australia in the America's Cup trials these past weeks, a much more modest vessel was being launched in the calmer waters of a harbor in nearby Fremantle. The skipper of the miniature marvel is none other than Ben Lexcen, 50, the celebrated designer of Australia II, which won the America's Cup in 1983. Featuring a scaled-down version of Lexcen's revolutionary winged keel, the 14-ft.-long fiber-glass Mini...
...Navy pilots training to be "the best of the best," had all the ingredients for a hit: a brash beefcake hero and a gorgeous, throaty-voiced heroine (Kelly McGillis), a pop-music sound track and MTV-style visual pyrotechnics. But the truly impressive stars of the film are its sleek, roaring fighter jets. Featured in thrilling aerial sequences, they make modern-day dogfights seem like the ultimate video game...