Word: racket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neil Simon play. In preparing an Essay on Simon and American humor, Kanfer found that the notes from his interview with the playwright mystically rearranged themselves into dramatic form. 2 a.m. on Third Avenue, Manhattan. NEIL SIMON is walking his shaggy dog and, improbably, swinging a tennis racket. An AMORPHOUS MASS suddenly takes the shape of an ageless human being. It taps SIMON on the shoulder...
...Brandishing racket...
With the pen-holder grip, the racket is held downward, with primarily the thumb and forefinger grasping the handle. The paddle is never reversed to a backhand side; the ball is hit with only one side of the racket...
Carlsson said that all of the paddlemen except Chui use the American, "handshake" grip on the racket. Chui, a Malaysian, employs the "pen-holder" grip...
...good for a man's soul," announced Norman Mailer in a speech at the University of California at Berkeley. While Mailer waxed outrageous and his audience enthusiastically heckled, someone tossed a burning jockstrap onto the stage and a prancing pair of Gay Liberationists got themselves busted. Despite the racket. Mailer held forth on his subject: "Richard Milhous Nixon and Women's Liberation." In the process he dropped such nuggets as "Richard Nixon walks like a puppet with strings controlled by a hand within his own head," "Most women have just started to think in the last...