Word: racketeering
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Chiou displayed excellent movement as he tracked down every angle and denied many would-be winners. He put the ball back in play over and over again, and it was ultimately Spracklin who lost his cool, dropped his racket, screamed in frustration and crumbled...
...Schwartz’s voice rings through the house, David C. Marshall ’07 forces himself out of his comfortable position and walks downstairs; he can’t hear a word through the racket. Elizabeth S. Thrall ’05 sits quietly at a desk, a cell phone cradled in her ear; Russell M. Anello ’04 is upstairs making his calls...
...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...