Word: libbers
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...Bore Him. Federer is a pleasure seeker, the best ad-libber in the game. No one loves hitting the perfect angles on the move - off your drop shot, your lob, your slice - more than him. "So stymie him by boring him to death," says Courier. "Play every single ball to the same corner, over and over. Deny him the pleasures of the sport." Another tedium tactic is to take extra time between points. "He's a rhythmic kind of player," says ex-pro Barry MacKay, a veteran TV commentator. "He likes to have things moving along at a certain pace...
...Method writer-director," she jokes.) But When Billie Beat Bobby (ABC, April 16, 9 p.m. E.T.) isn't really a tennis movie, just as the King-Riggs face-off wasn't memorable as tennis (she creamed him, in straight sets). When more than 40 million watched the lobbin' libber play the fast-talking former pro turned hustler, the big-top spectacle brought feminism into the living room...
...verbal facility (he was the quickest ad-libber in the business) and openness to edgy comedians like Sahl and Bruce, Allen was no radical. He was the ideal host: a mediator, a moderator. When he wasn't talking, he actually listened to his guests. When he wasn't being funny, he could be resolutely serious; "The Tonight Show" occasionally devoted entire evenings to one guest (Carl Sandburg) or discussion of one topic (civil rights). Unlike most modern hosts, Allen wasn't shy about trying to edify people. He didn't pretend to be stupider than he was. Or younger...
...talks at Camp David and a 15-hour flight to Japan (with a 13-hour time change) Clinton and his aides were bushed. Yet while the President often looked puffy-eyed, he never nodded off in public. But veteran Clinton-watchers noted that when the President, a compulsive ad-libber, gave his major speech at Okinawa's Peace Park, he stuck strictly to his prepared text, a sure sign of exhaustion...