The wooden plane, held together with piano wire, was classified as a yacht by the customs officer.

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The Zonda looks like what it is, a domesticated Le Mans prototype, a hard-eyed courtesan in a carbon-fiber corset laced with an assassin's piano wire.

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That safety net would have taken some of the edge off the piano-wire-tense game against Stanford.

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