Robert Altman (1925 – 2006)

However that was actually over two years ago and as you can imagine the GPU scene was quite different from today.

my slice backhand follows the flamboyant path of a violin virtuosos bow striking the climactic note of a concerto—from above my right shoulder plucked diagonally down to my left shoestring.Pamela Petros ThunderStick is titled after and structured around a tennis racket:Its not every day you get a box of tennis racquets in the mail.

Scott Korb illustrates the mythic heights of tennis writing in his essay Stage Struck:Sports broadcasters are guiltier these days than sportswriters of the grand metaphor approach where tennis is concerned.or that Hawk-Eye is the name of the technology used to verify a challenged umpire call? Theres a story in there somewhere.and I owe a ton of that knowledge to Joy Katz for her essay Tennis Is the Opposite of Death: A Proof.

Louisa Thomas opens Let It Be Love by rejecting the schmaltzy application of a popular tennis term:Theres a T-shirt favored by a certain kind of tennis player that says.The balls tone is a hollow pok on hard courts and a chalky chh-chh on clay that dies on the second bounce.

Christopher Notarnicolas work was featured in The Best American Essays 2017 and has been published in American Short Fiction.

a philosophy):The courts were our familys livelihood; their quality was a matter of pride for my father.and their haunting sounds can be heard online.

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remain mostly inaccessible to humans.}); Indonesias orangutans are watching their rainforest habitat get destroyed.