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...COMPETITIONS 1,000 Length, in meters, of a tightrope-billed as the longest ever-strung across Seoul's Han River, as part of what organizers called the world's first international high-wire competition 11 min. 22 sec. Time it took winner Abudusataer Wujiabudula, an ethnic Uighur from China, to cross the tightrope, earning him a prize...
...Ponnudorai's parents were too poor to buy him a metronome: he learned his exquisite sense of timing by playing along to the creak of an old ceiling fan. Naturally left-handed, he taught himself to play on a right-handed guitar because it was cheaper than a model strung for left-handers (and this is how he still plays). A car crash in his early 20s ("we were road racing and I drove my car into a ravine") gave him the limp that he still walks with at 45; in his head are two drainage holes, covered merely...
Suchde killed the first ball immediately, eager to get on his serve and start earning points. He demolished me with well-placed serves and a set of angled shots that perfectly hit the corners. Within moments, Suchde had strung together nine points...
...Long Island landmarks to a beach house owned by Spooner (Chris Bowers), the hot Buddhist astrophysicist of the bunch. “Sing Now” is most engaging when it develops the friends’ personal stories. There’s the maybe-gay starving actor, the high-strung boring one with the loudmouth wife (played by the irritating Molly Shannon of “Saturday Night Live” semi-fame), the L.A. hotshot, the Manhattan lawyer divorcee, and the normal guy who keeps measuring his receding hairline in inches. They’ve all got their idiosyncrasies...
...Hitting is contagious,” Casey said. “Especially when you’re down like that, you have to get back quick, because the game’s getting shorter and shorter. Nobody really strung it together. Eight runs in the first isn’t something you want to come back from...