Ultrachic

Lord & Taylor's bags threaten to upstage those of its glossier rivals, like the ultrachic Bergdorf Goodman, whose traditional lavender bags, emblazoned with the image of well-dressed Park Avenue ladies, are thin and frail by comparison.

Besides e-mails, accessing his favorite comic strips via the Internet, and occasionally writing a letter, Frank primarily used his multiple-thousand dollar, ultrafast, ultrathin, ultrachic Macintosh computer to play a simple card game.