Word: racket
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...ageing great Andre Agassi, that Swiss guy who's trying to bring back bandanas (Roger Federer) or perhaps the handsome Spaniard with a name like a fast car (Juan Carlos Ferrero). Nowadays, no one's much surprised when a Top 10 player loses to anyone who wields a racket for a living...
...basketball preview] magazines would call you,” Sullivan said. “They would want to know who’s on the court, who’s doing what, what the league looks like. Then, they would draw up a consensus of opinion. Now, the magazine racket is all driven by one thing—first on the market. They don’t have time to bother with the Ivy League...
With a few exceptions later into the album (sounding more like the Jaxx of old), these tracks are so treacherous that you’ve got to either dive into the vortex or leave. Even the beats almost don’t matter as much as the immaculate racket, which actualizes rave music’s coveted state of “mental” while rendering the listener totally helpless. It’s an instant delirium machine; as J.C. Chasez coldly implores, “plug it in, baby.” —Ryan...
...club members have earned their privileges, and they pay annual dues. Adams House residents got lucky in a housing lottery, and they pay the same tuition as everyone else. This tuition then subsidizes their luxurious dining hall. Indeed, Dartboard struggles in vain to think of one way that the racket at Adams, in principle, is less nefarious than the capitalist patriarchies breathlessly browbeaten on leaflets around the Yard...
...This is my first time [in Salem]. Thought I’d get a little history in—witch trials and everything,” he says as he watches a friend get her face painted a flattering shade of asphyxia-blue. The face painting racket is at a height of popularity, with several competing tents. One specializes in painting wounds on customers. Seeing people walk by with caked blood on their faces no longer seems weird after the first two or three times...