When in 1883 Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt, arrayed for a fancy-dress ball as Electric Light, topped off her satin and diamonds with a large incandescent bulb, it subtracted nothing from the elegance of the scheme.

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He began wearing full-length mink coats and velvet blazers and rolling into ball games in his fancy Rolls Royce.

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There was an intense performance from Malawian rap act NiC, a duo who volleyed words back and forth like Sampras and Ivanisevic in their prime, deciding not to bother with those fancy passing shots and just belting the ball at each other.

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By his own design, though, WALL-E has become, over time, an endlessly curious garbologist who collects objects that strike his fancy -- an eggbeater, a sheet of bubble wrap, a Rubik's cube, a paddle-ball, a Zippo lighter, a brassiere (he experiments with it by putting it over his eyes) a diamond ring in a velvet box (he tosses the ring and keeps the box).

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