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...wish that this show had included a few more of the paintings De Stael did of soccer players -- heraldic yet energetic blocks of primary color, moving on the floodlit field of the Parc des Princes outside Paris -- for they are the summa of his love of the physical. "On grass that is either red or blue," he wrote to his friend the poet Rene Char, "there whirls a ton of muscle in complete disregard for self with, against all sensibilities, a great sense of presence. What...
Allan Cleland's nose grazes the grass as he stoops to draw an imaginary line between his ball and the wicket in the final round of the Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards' version of the World Croquet Championship on May 19. Ireland's Simon Williams, who the day before had been doing a fingertip push-up to calculate a similar shot, anticipates that Cleland will attempt a triple peel and, incidentally, not stain his immaculate summer whites. Australia's Cleland, like 23 of the other best players from Ireland, England, New Zealand, Canada, Australia and the U.S., has come to what some...
...then groomed with a metal comb by a greenkeeper. The dependable sogginess that keeps British courts so lush is helped along here by a state- of-the-art sprinkler and drainage system percolating at 32 in. an hour. The boundaries and hoops are rotated so that no spot of grass gets worn down, creating undesirable breaks...
...already holds records for prize money won in a season, $2,334,367, and in a career, $16,282,293. But the only goal he speaks of with affection is to win Wimbledon for the first time. To achieve that, he has invested ten weeks in unpaid practice on grass courts on three continents. He wants to become the fifth man ever, and the first in more than two decades, to complete a career Grand Slam. (Wimbledon and the Australian, French and U.S. Opens acquired this collective honorific when Don Budge won them all in 1938; they were the national...
...Wesley; 252 pages; $35), a collection of seasonal bouquets by 37 writers including Mary Cantwell (To a City Breeze), Laurie Colwin (How to Avoid Grilling), Wallace Stevens (Sailing After Lunch) and Meg Wolitzer (The Summer Reading List). Herewith another summer reading list to beguile the hours spent in hammocks, grass and sand...