Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California, Australia's Roy Emerson and the U.S.'s Billie Jean King the No. 1 -ranked male and female amateurs in the world, both signed pro contracts, along with three other ranking women: Britain's Ann Haydon Jones, France's Francoise Durr and the J.S.'s Rosemary Casals. "This does a great deal to clear my conscience," said Billie Jean. "I'll admit I made my living as an amateur-but it wasn't close to what I can make...
...hurt some amateurs who are not quite good enough to compete successfully as pros and can no longer expect a free ride from tournament promoters. But it will also attract new talent to the game. "There will be a lot more interest in tennis now," said Bilhe Jean King. "It will be a strong motivation to young athletes to take up the sport...
...more elaborate manifestations, such as the swirling nonsense nebulae of France's Jean Francois Bory (see cut), concrete poetry has some of the appeal of pop posters, and the same sort of esthetic justification. But the movement as a whole raises an important question: Did Joyce Kilmer miss all that much by never having seen a poem lovely as a t ttt rrrrr rrrrrrr eeeeeeeee...
...Pannonian plain near Belgrade, a colony of gypsies dwells in a clot of squalor, surviving on what they earn from buying and selling goose feathers. Outstanding among them is an erotic, intemperate feather merchant named Bora, played by Bekim Fehmiu, a Yugoslav actor strongly reminiscent of Jean-Paul Belmondo. Endlessly indulging in wife-beating and mistress-bedding, Bora downs liters of wine and scatters his seed, his feathers and his future. As the film's principal character, he meanders from confined hovels to expansive farm fields, from rural barrooms to the streets of Belgrade. Wherever he travels, he witnesses...
...since its editor and publisher is Barney Rosset, 45, president of Grove Press, a house that specializes in erotica and avant-garde authors. Its hard-cover Black Circle books and its Black Cat and Zebra paperbacks embrace everything from outright pornography (The Pearl) to mystical flights of sexual fantasy (Jean Genet's Miracle of the Rose) to revolutionary calls to action (Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth). It also has a generous supply of European anti-novelists and provocative psychologists...