Mirabelle reaches into a gray plastic bucket and pulls out a roach motel, then a rat trap.

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Jutting conspicuously out straight into the middle of the net, is a gray plastic lever that actually registers when you sink a shot.

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There's a black plastic accent all around the edges, with the majority of the phone -- the front, "active flip" and keypad -- finished in a handsome shade of dark gray plastic (cream and blue being the other two colors available).

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The charging pad itself has a glossy plastic base that matches the phone, but there's a nice rubbery gray top that keeps the handset from sliding around too much while it's juicing up.

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Under the plate rack on the draining board and at the bottom of the plastic pot for the cutlery was a murky gray sludge.

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While most of the residents are dressed summer casual, their bare legs sticking to plastic chairs assembled on the center's basketball court, Williams is wearing a gray suit, a gray shirt and his trademark bow tie (also gray, though with a few zany paisley figures).

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