Word: wet
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...water pooled on the surface. Dyson's Airblade instead blasts the water off your hands with a jet of air traveling at 400 m.p.h. The hurricane-force wind squeegees water into a drain; in a trial run, it took 10 seconds for our hands to go from dripping wet to bone dry. As a hygienic bonus, expelled air and collected water are thoroughly filtered. The Airblade hits gas or, rather, petrol stations in Britain this fall and will probably find its way into U.S. rest rooms next year...
...mistake the Guide for an odd exercise in irony—it is, after all, hosted at the site “badideafactory.com.” But its implausibility, even its surreal absurdity in some cases—one student writes of her resistance to “wet-dreams of greatness”—in fact masks its more disturbing side. The Guide’s exact purpose is unclear: Perhaps its creators aim to recruit a revolutionary army from the ranks of incoming freshmen. Or maybe its goal is to spark debate at any cost. When...
Duque did not respond to officers’ demands to cease his erratic behavior, and soaking wet, slipped from their grasps, according to the police report...
...suddenly be transported 4,000 miles away to an African desert. Enter the world of Donna Karan. Like Ralph Lauren, she is an expert seductress when it comes to style. She can conjure her last trip to Egypt or Israel by simply painting the walls the color of wet sand, burning tangy incense and laying out a rough plywood floor. By the time the frocks come galloping out on platform shoes with heels that are sculpted in such a way as to resemble the handles of kitchen utensils, the clothes seem irrelevant. You're in Donna's world and everything...
...Some of the sharpest lines go to such Guest stalwarts Michael McKean, as one of the film's screenwriters (who, when asked for changes, warns, "You don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, because then you'd have a wet, critically injured baby") and Fred Willard, as the airhead host of a TV infotainment show (complaining about foreign films, he says, "French movies with writing on the screen - I always think it's breaking news"). O'Hara has the meatiest, or hammiest, role as a has-been diva who by Oscar-nomination time has transformed...