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...distance, though, and Tate Modern provides plenty of space for this to happen. When talking of Hopper's work, admirers and experts invariably use words like melancholy and alienation. Certainly, most of his paintings project isolation and ennui. Even when his subjects are meant to be cheery, like his beach scenes, the sun is shining but it casts deep shadows. Many of his motifs are infused with a sense of solitariness: single people in rooms, lone houses by roads or railroads. House by a Road (1940) has windows like the eyes of a skull, filled in with pure black...
...Sydney restaurant, he describes the Adelaide backyard where he and his brothers contested their fierce "Tests" - played always, at the insistence of their father, with a hard ball. Other times, with local boys, they'd set up stumps at the park around the corner or at the beach, where they chose between two types of pitch - fast (the hard sand) or a subcontinental turner (the soft stuff). These games could go for hours, like sessions of the various solo bat-and-ball activities that young Greg would settle for sometimes...
...they weren't perfunctorily engaged in the nets they were doing reductional drills - targeting one segment of a movement. Many of today's cricketers, Chappell suspects, don't know how it feels to be immersed in practice. But is he seriously suggesting they should be playing at the beach? "Absolutely. They should be doing a lot more game-scenario training, something that challenges them in ways the nets...
While the events at City Hall did not begin until late last night, nearly a dozen same-sex couples and supporters were camped outside by mid-afternoon, adorning the historic building’s entrance with flowers, beach chairs and decorative swans. National and local media reporters mixed in with the excited couples, at times outnumbering them...
Come summertime, many teenagers typically lounge on the beach, catching some rays. The more enterprising among them might volunteer at the local community shelter, research in a lab, take a course on Shakespeare or train to be world-class athletes. But for some of those with an eye on a top college, these options simply don’t cut it. Instead, they—or their parents—feel it’s necessary to attend one of three different college application camps that give students “the edge...