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Even Borg's racquets are a notch above the norm. A strong club player will have his racquets strung to a pressure of 55 Ibs. per sq. in. Pro players, whose skill enables them to control the ball better, will gain extra power by having their strings tightened to as much as 60 to 65 per sq. in. Borg's racquets are strung to a slab-hard 80 per sq. in. The strings are under such tremendous pressure that they often snap even when they are not being used. "At night sometimes in the hotel, they'll wake...
...ever closer as mentor and student, surrogate father and son, brothers in Christ, Playwright Davis fashions a glowing parable on the indivisibility of love. At the apex of his craft, O'Shea could enter an actor's Hall of Fame with this one performance. Mettlesome, high-strung, bursting into a boy's wounded tears or unlaced laughter, Roberts' Mark is a worthy foil. But perhaps the most exciting find of the evening is the directorial debut of Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald. Subtly and surely, she weaves a mantle of sentiment without sentimentality, and provides off-Broadway...
...Anything but Love in Blackbirds of 19281 Never mind. Black Broadway brings them both back anew for a three-week run at Man hattan's Town Hall. The revue, an out growth of a concert at last year's Newport Jazz Festival, is an amiable, loosely strung hit parade of black musical entertainment from the first half of the century...
...tartopped Styx, through a black door marked "private club." Follow me down a stony stairway into a savage den of black leather jackets, tight jeans, shiny boots, studded belts, heaving chests, tank tops, naked torsos, bulging muscles, captain's caps, jock straps, weird tattoos, mirrored sunglasses and gold necklaces strung so tight no one breathes...
...passion or urgency carries this song, and no story either. "Romeo's Tune" is representative of other songs on the album, a collection of phrases strung together seemingly out of convenience...