Word: pingponging
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...Balls, by Paul Foster, stars two spotlighted pingpong balls that throughout the play swing back and forth over the pitch-dark graves of two long-dead though volubly tape-recorded sailors. Dramatically grave-robbed from Beckett, this is a good isometric exercise for the neck, but lames the brain...
...Thus in Caracas last summer, a clever cop arrested a topless-bathing-suit wearer simply for not carrying identification papers. But in Cannes, another cop could think of no such evasive tactic when he spotted Claudine Durand, 21, on the beach. Barebreasted, the pretty Parisian gym teacher was playing pingpong before fascinated spectators...
...Pingpong. It is not so much an opera as a series of dreamlike tableaux strung across a barren landscape of the ear. The score is jaggedly dissonant, an extension of the twelve-tone music espoused by Nono's idol and father-in-law, the late Composer Arnold Schoenberg. Italian Composer Bruno Maderna conducted the performance like a man refereeing a pingpong match, swinging from side to side to summon a swatch of mewing strings here, a splash of braying trumpets there. For the singers it was "up and down, up and down, from high C to low F," said...
...each afternoon there is a "cocktail hour" (milk, chocolate milk, fruit juices); on Wednesday evenings a "soirée" (plays put on by the children); the days are filled with horseback riding, shuffleboard, pingpong, and swimming in summer-part of the famous Noordwijk Beach is reserved for the hotel. Language barriers go down fast. A Swedish boy at Skansebo −one of Denmark's five children's hotels −learned fluent French and accentless Danish (very difficult for a Swede) on a single summer holiday...
...rise financed by a slightly higher tax on employers and employees. >Voted, 77 to 2, in a lively Senate session, to repeal the 10% federal excise taxes on a vast variety of consumer items ranging from cosmetics, handbags and luggage to mechanical pencils and pingpong balls. > Overrode, in a House Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, the decade-old dictatorship of Chairman Otto Passman, a Louisiana Democrat whose only particular claim to fame is his effective hostility to the foreign-aid program. Always in the past Passman had been backed by Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, chairman of the full Appropriations Committee...