Word: cannoneering
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...wiry, intense man with a head like a parchment-covered cannon ball and a passion for skin diving, Ferrer was born in Santurce, P.R., in 1933. In New York City in his early twenties, he supported himself as a drummer with bands in Spanish Harlem. Cuban music, he recalls, gave him "the ability to bring out the tropical, primitive, emotional conditions of one's roots into the open, and to rejoice in their messiness and to be ... proud of their contradictions...
...sound, which is reminiscent of a cannon being fired in the distance, may originate from a fan room underneath the metal grates on the east side of Widener, Frank Lamentea, assistant business manager of the library, said yesterday...
...little like Sunday morning. The choir sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Bishop William Cannon delivered some Methodist thunder. There was wisdom from the prophet Micah. Jimmy led the discussion about hope, humility and sacrifice. Archbishop John Roach closed the service with a touch of Roman Catholic poetry. Then Jimmy and Rosalynn walked hand in hand back home down the avenue...
...fantasize that it was Beverly Hills." He studied political science at Yale and started his career in New York as a concert booking agent. Eventually he signed on with Rogers & Cowan, the show-business p.r. firm, spending six years boosting such entertainers as Ann-Margret, Dustin Hoffman and Dyan Cannon. "I wanted to be an actor," he confesses. "But I just never thought of myself as being attractive...
...Which of the gleaming new products will convert a peashooter serve into a Roscoe Tanner cannonball? Will the weekend buff find Chris Evert's steady groundstrokes in a $69 graphite frame by Yamaha, or is the operator so poor that the tool required is a $200 (unstrung) Aldila Cannon? The questions are important because the racquet is "an extension not just of arm but of self. Between points, a player can often be seen fondling a racquet that has served him well. A few bad shots, and it will bear the brunt of self-abasement as it is flung...