Word: circuitous
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Harold Solomon, ranked sixth on the pro circuit, has never beaten Borg in 14 attempts. He has a different idea about the mainsprings of Borg's success. Says Solomon: "He has this operating range that goes from about 5 or 6 ft. behind the base line to 3 or 4 ft. inside the base line, and he's like a god in there. To try to beat him in that range is almost impossible. I think he's two or three levels above everybody else. My playing him is almost like some good high school team playing the Pittsburgh Steelers...
When he was a teen on the tennis circuit, much was made of Borg the high school dropout who passed his time reading comicbooks. His taste now runs to World War II novels and histories, but he finds it difficult to keep his mind on such tomes during a tournament. "No one believes how hard you have to concentrate on the court. After four hours of thinking, thinking, on every point, I come back to the hotel, and I am so mentally exhausted, all I can do is lie on the bed and watch the ceiling...
...great achievements, Lash does not avoid the darker sides of her life--the split with Dr. James Anagnos, the director of the Perkins Institution for the Blind; Helen's failure to find gray tones among the blacks and whites of morality; and her eagerness to hit the vaudeville circuit to support herself and her efforts for the American Foundation for the Blind. "Why do you do this," a reporter asked her in the middle of her act one night. "To make money," Helen responded simply...
...Miracles ended 1960 with one gold record. By the end of the decade they had seven more. Motown grew into a kind of consortium of all-American soul as Gordy moved acts like the Supremes, Marvin Gaye and-yes-the Miracles out of the soul circuit and into the mainstream. Eventually Smokey seemed to lose his footing a little bit. He broke with the Miracles in 1972, wanting to spend time with his family. His solo records, smoothly crafted, were winning but not involving, irresolute, somehow, as if written and recorded on automatic...
...badly wants to polish her game--"I plan to be pretty intense," she says--with the ultimate objective of making the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour. As long as she thinks she is improving, Greis will stick with the grueling, often disheartening amateur mini-tours and the Grapefruit circuit, paying her dues until she is ready to take on Nancy Lopez and company...