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Oversized racket sales -- with prices ranging from $100-300 -- grew by 60 per cent last year. The racquets have put the snowshoe on the other foot, prompting Prince users to jeer outdated traditionalist and mock the mini-racquet antiques. What's that for. . . Stir your martinis? Swat mosquitos? Nail down the lines...

Author: By Steven M. Arkow, | Title: Making Headway: A Prince Turns King | 12/4/1981 | See Source »

...hardly worth the plane fares. Although the U.S. has the offensive in the verbal "peace war," the burden is on us to secure an accord. The longer the talks last without any visible progress, the more the U.S. initiative will fade. The European anti-nuclear movement will begin to stir again, accusing Washington of stalling and being insincere about arms reductions. Critics here will charge that the "zero-option" was no more than public relations hype, and American foreign policy will once again have been frustrated...

Author: By Paul Jefferson, | Title: Less Than Zero | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

Three home shutouts in a row can make a wildcat stir crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Interstate 94, Northwestern 0 | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...unit an entirely different face. Part of District 65's current dilemma stems from the fact that many eligible voters are transient workers, young and on the move. The older workers who stay tend to be more conservative, less open to the dramatic change the union's presence would stir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Division of Labor | 11/11/1981 | See Source »

...flashy in feature sections where writers are encouraged to stretch their imaginations. The two irreconcilable sides of the paper become one in the head of its debonair and aggressive editor Ben Bradlee. Like John McEnroe on a tennis court, Bradlee loses his playing edge when he can't stir things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: Going Eyeball to Eyeball - and Blinking | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

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