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Kenyon: My game consisted of big forehand blasts which went long, lobs and weird slices which left my body twisted when I finished the swing. Summers, by contrast, was the very picture of consistency and cool, only his eyes giving away any hint of emotion. Well, his eyes, and the occasional sigh when Wasserstein fucked...
...think is that my steps during layups are slower and longer than what everyone is used to and sometimes I change direction before my last step and that’s why it might seem weird first,” Cserny said...
...Back in Bangkok, we crack open some beers, and the afternoon takes another turn for the weird. "I've got 600 ballpoint pens in a box under that desk," Swaffield says abruptly. "I still don't know what to do with them." Or with those wafer-thin frogs, peeled lovingly from roads around Siem Reap and now drying in his window box. He cranks up his Mac to display his latest work: bizarrely beautiful etchings of Angkorian temples where rioting fig-tree roots pulsate and twist in freakish homage to the stone gods. "Surreal, obviously," says Swaffield. Obviously...
...recall my classmates’ creations—elaborate boxes wrapped in shiny tinfoil, dotted with pretend buttons and adorned with assorted levers. These Willy-Wonka-esque machines did your homework for you—or destroyed it all together. None of my friends, however, shared my slightly weird, slightly mundane peeve: failing to receive letters from my many pen pals with adequate frequency. My invention consisted of a cardboard replica of my family’s mailbox, in which I placed an alligator-on-a-stick circus toy. When the mailman failed to deliver any letters...
...impetus for many above-ground constructions. The Weeks footbridge between Leverett and the B-School? It was built to carry the steam pipes when they were extended across the Charles in 1926; a three-foot high crawlspace allows workers to traverse the river inside the bridge. How about those weird mushroom things when you’re walking from the Yard to the Science Center? They let excess heat escape from the tunnels...