That power makes it easy to pop up onto a water-ski-size board and surf off across the waves.

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Accessing the 2.5-inch HDD inside is easy peasy: just pop the top off and pull out the drive, and swapping storage is simply a matter of dropping another HDD in the cradle.

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Though Fedofsky's music sounds like easy, breezy retro-pop, he sometimes incorporates strange, otherworldly lyrics into his songs instead of singing only about more conventional topics like love and heartache.

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Sliding in the cell locks it in place, where a swipe of the lock lets it pop out so that you can grasp it with your fingers -- it's usually an easy task, but sometimes the battery doesn't pop out enough to get a grip on it.

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It is also easy to imagine how the property bubbles might pop.

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With an easy sensuality, Jones found the seam between pop and jazz, writing songs that sound as if she grew up immersed in the canon and knows how to sing a gentle version of it.

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New fusions of rock and pop forms create engaging music that defies easy categorization.

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Fierstein says converting a pop composer into a Broadway one wasn't easy but Lauper was game.

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Subsequently picked up by an indie label for 2005's Easy Beat, the group won raves for its fascinating combination of psychedelic pop hooks and Beach Boys-esque vocal harmonies.

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