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...mind turns to the wooden frames he used to win four Grand Slam tournaments, starting with the Australian Open 50 years ago, when he beat his mate Neale Fraser on grass in the final. "I can show you," he says, rising from his dining table and disappearing into another part of his Brisbane home. Though 70 and with two new hips, he moves lightly, returning moments later with a battered racquet. Its head is small by today's standards, but it feels heavy and unwieldy. Cooper's big break in the '57 Open was Fraser upsetting Lew Hoad...
...incandescent obsession with getting the play of light and shadow, the balance of colors and the curve of a line, just right - not the way it is in reality, but the way it looks in the artist's imagination. "I have slowly learned about the pattern of the grass, the trees, the structure of birds and other animals like insects and fish, so that when I am 80, I hope to be better," Hokusai wrote 16 years before his death at age 89. "At 90, I hope to have caught the very essence of things, so that...
...whole collection of fogies who had hitherto been blithely unaware of its existence, this writer included.) I loved every minute of it; I watched the World Cup on three continents, in bars in Hong Kong, pubs in London, and?it's a tough job, this?sitting on the grass in Aspen, Colorado, on a gorgeous June day with the Maroon Bells etched against blue sky. And I saw enough to be convinced, again, that everything you have read?not least in these pages?about the World Cup as an expression of global community and a unique focus for a nonthreatening...
...Place to Be" [Nov. 20]. Huh? The Democrats kicked butt. You should have put Howard Dean on the cover. It was his 50-state strategy, along with the great fund-raising work of Congressman Rahm Emanuel and Senator Chuck Schumer, and a whole bunch of great candidates with grass-roots support, that won the election. Ruth Adkins Portland, Oregon...
...Place to Be" [Nov. 20]. Huh? The Democrats kicked butt. You should have put Howard Dean on the cover. It was his 50-state strategy, along with the great fund-raising work of Congressman Rahm Emanuel and Senator Chuck Schumer, and a whole bunch of great candidates with grass-roots support, that won the election. Ruth Adkins Portland, Oregon, U.S. Twelve years ago, when the G.O.P.took control of the Congress, the cover of Time heralded the "G.O.P. Stampede." Now, when the stampede is by the Democrats, what does the cover say about it? There was nary a mention...