Word: racket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wimbledon. It seems as if nearly every Australian child grows up brandishing a tennis racket, but it is not an easy sport for an aborigine to crack. Aborigines are Australia's forgotten people, living mainly in shanty settlements at the edge of inland and outback towns. Still, there was no denying Evonne. She began training with the Barellan tennis club when she was six. Four years later the club president, a retired local farmer named Bill Kurtzmann, entered her in a tournament in nearby Naranndera. It turned out that there was no youth division, so the ten-year...
...most desultory and annoying banging of the new doors on Gray leads us to hope something may be done to prevent such a racket...
...model?and promptly attracted the attention of a movie agent who had seen her TV commercials for Chanel No. 5 Bath Oil. Ali turned him off?fast. She had met a slew of movie people on location: "I categorically decided I didn't want to be involved in the racket...
...matter now that we have this new thing, these electric sounds, it's a question of how can you use them in such a way that they're music rather than racket? Because the point is fine. I've been using the feedback stuff instead of playing lines or for producing a layer of sound which is the thing that happens most naturally. I've been using it by like striking a string and bringing up my volume knob so that there is no attack on the beginning of the note. The note just starts to come...
...content with producing commercials and 70% of all the station identifications that racket through the middle ear of Middle America, P. & T. is now seeping into the semiconsciousness of the whole world. The BBC's pop network is overrun with Pepper & Tanner jingles ("It's what's happening . . . Radio One"). So is station Rediffusion Singapore. For the state radio system of Malawi, P. & T. tapes are dubbed in Chitumbuka, a native dialect. It was P. & T., naturally, which prerecorded the "This Is Apollo Weather" parody "intros" played by the astronauts during the Apollo 12 moon shot...