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or that the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club employs a Harriss hawk named Rufus to keep pigeons from interfering with matches.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.

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Internet sleuths were quick to point out that fellow Brit Kate Bushs 1982 album The Dreaming features both a song of the same name and a cover photo of the recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee with a similar key in her mouth.slotId: slantmagazine_300x250_320x50_320x100_incontent_1 });Houdini finds Lipa daring a suiter to try to tame her: If youre good enough.

Lipas forthcoming third studio album is reportedly a move in a more 70s-style psychedelic directionthe video for Demons co-stars Christina Ricci and reprises the dark visual themes of the clips for Attention and Paint the Town Red.