| 单词 | racket |
| 例句 | “That’s evident, by the way you racket downstairs. Come to your tea, sir, and behave like a gentleman.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re making such a racket, the little boy starts to cry. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “Or if they wanted, they would have allowed him to hang himself by his racket strings while under police custody.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Scaramouche managed to get me a few old tennis rackets from his wealthy white tennis friends, and I was able to concentrate on my game without worrying about a broken racket or string. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Eyeing me like I’d just leapt the net and beaten the favorite to death with my racket. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I found that the burial societies, with some exceptions, were mostly “rackets.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I stayed there for several minutes, just listening to all the talk and the racket. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I heard the boys call out for God’s protection and dash away, raising a racket as they stumbled through the dark graveyard. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I made a terrible racket walking up the steps and almost slipped several times. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Before Otto could consult his pad for a possible solution, a mighty racket sounded outside. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z What a relief it was to climb the stairs and leave most of the racket two floors behind. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z But I was lucky enough to see which tree one squirrel went up; so I put some of Little Arliss’s racket to use. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Zola joggets out of her house and bellows into the hedge, “Stop that racket, you artichoke!” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I was excited to have my own tennis racket at first, but I didn’t really pursue the sport or make the most of the training Mom and Dad offered. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z From down the lane, the racket of tinsmiths and coppersmiths filled the air like flashes of fire. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “You are the racket. What in the world are you wearing? Chain mail?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I found it hard to believe they were made of flesh and blood as I watched them display complete mastery over the racket and the tennis ball. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I am awake in the tool factory, and I know I have just screamed, but no one has heard me in the racket. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z While waiting for his opponent to serve, he rapidly twisted the racket, bounced from foot to foot, and swayed his body, always ready to move to either side of the court. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It smelt of lawn sprinklers and station wagons and tennis rackets and dogs and babies. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z "They have a new racket around here," he said, twirling the match between his finger and thumb. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Suffer through that racket or work in an oven. That fan doesn’t really cut it on a day like today.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z So I made a great racket, banging the club against a tree and yelling. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Relax your arm now, don’t throttle the racket,” “Watch the ball all the way,” “Good—good!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Her heroes were her friends and her friends were big men in the rackets. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z My racket takes on a life of its own, a bolt of energy. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z But of course Miss Love couldn’t hear me over the racket, so I tiptoed into the hall. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was almost dusk, that magical time of evening just before the fireflies come out, just as the crickets start up their all-night racket. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He touches the border of the shrubbery with the rim of his racket and sets one or two wild irises nodding. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Uncle Vernon had given in because of the racket Hedwig made if she was locked in her cage all the time. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “What on earth is this racket about? I could hear you down the hall!” she says, frowning. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Not only the brains, judging by the racket they make some nights.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z There was an old lady with a shopping cart full of cat food and three tennis rackets. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “Then I’ll see if I can find an old racket for you,” she said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z As I step on the scale, Dad swings his racket and scores. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z And the first time I hollered at him, telling him to dry up all that racket, he hushed. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z She laughed, sauntered over to the serving line, picked up a ball, gazed at it, tossed it in the air, and whacked it with a flat thud smack in the center of the racket. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The challenge was to rig the machines position so that the ball—the Mercury capsule- landed as closely as possible to the navy’s waiting racket. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Old-timers—or as old as timers got in a city as young as Mica—said they had never heard such a racket. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z There was no one at home to explain the fearsome racket, but she satisfied herself that the iron cook stove had not blown up, and returned to her sweltering bedroom to continue reading and copying. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She took her tennis rackets, closed the doors, then sighed, “Phew, what a tiring day. Don’t ever play tennis,” she said to me, “it’s a killer.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He told him he’d better hush up that racket before he got his brains beat out. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dad, I want you to tell me how fabulous you were just one more time. I couldn’t hear the story with all the racket this popcorn was making.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My racket and tennis skirts are in my closet, awaiting cobwebs. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Yelping, he dropped his racket and fell to the ground. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z No wonder everyone knows him, I thought, in that racket you have to get around. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Traft’s cowboys came to stand behind him, apparently oblivious to the music that signaled a lively dance called the racket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The bike made a racket, but Angelo claimed it didn’t bother the pigs and would allow us to cover a lot more ground than we could on foot. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I was almost fourteen years old, had never handled a tennis racket in my life and knew absolutely nothing about the rules of the game. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I got full charge of the numbers racket in this hospital,” he said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I bumped into the cupboard door so hard it nearly knocked me over, and was scolded for making such a racket. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I had to be careful not to bump into anything and make a racket. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The device raised a clanging racket, sounding, Pollard remembered later, “like all hell breaking loose.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Does this unholy racket mean the arrival of the war?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I was awakened from my reverie by Stan saying the following to Owen: “ . . . and I think Mark will need rackets, tennis shoes, shirts and shorts.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z While his neighbor was trying to persuade him a violent racket broke out overhead. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He parks in front of his father’s building, remaining long enough in the car to see an elderly, sprightly couple emerge with tennis rackets. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. have to call down to tell them to shut up the racket What you building? The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of flags waved, adding their discordant national anthems to the racket. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z In the background the racket of Buster Friendly boomed and brayed, eradicating her words; he saw her mouth moving but heard only the TV. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I cant get no cooking done with all that racket. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Chip shielded his eyes as Big Dub walked over to them, his racket perched on his shoulder. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She said this with a quick little shrug, her eyes still on the strings of her racket as she straightened them. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Baba kicked a wooden tennis racket on our tarpaulin spread with the toe of his boot. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z During a visit to Andre’s sport shop to have my racket strung, I told him that I was looking for a job. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Templeton’s teeth scraped loudly against the wood and made quite a racket. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z But what she said, in a wail hard to understand over the train racket and me still part deaf, was “I left my bucket in the blackberry bushes, Will! Hit were might near full!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Luna was not there: The thing that was making such a racket was a wooden object covered in magically turning cogs and wheels. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “It makes an awful racket, but it kinda makes sense, don’t it? One way to deal with the Noise.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Stan Smith, as he dried his face, looked me up and down, saw that I was in tennis garb and had my racket with me, and said: “Would you like to hit some?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a mighty racket outside, crunching steel and shattering glass. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Big Dub switched his racket to his other shoulder. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Others, less fortunate, fell directly into the boat, where they started a racket of flapping and flailing and splashing. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z We played lawn tennis with homemade wooden rackets and soccer with bare feet on a field of dust. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that he was awake, he couldn’t understand how he could have slept through the racket the birds were making. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Because of my reputation, it was easy for me to get into the numbers racket. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you young fool, are you finally finished making enough racket to tear down the house?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z From his clothes, three expensive rackets, mien and well-conditioned body, I took him for a professional player. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Racks of clothes, shelves of books, shoes, tennis rackets. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z There was a gust of wind through the room, and my chickens made a racket when it blew through their cage. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “Christ, man, you sure make a racket delivering those blats,” Snuffy laughed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She manages to sleep through the morning racket—until Grandma Knife's big toe prods her, making her yelp. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “My brother and I were discussing business and heard the music. I told him, Now that is the most god-awful racket I’d ever heard.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z This silences the racket in me for a moment. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I tried to make conversation, but had to yell over the car racket, and she had such a thin voice I couldn’t hear a word she said. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They wore little blue suits with snap-on bow ties, and their Sunday shoes made a terrific racket on the floor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He drove a sports car and piloted his own plane, which he once famously flew so low over the house of the school’s president that the machine’s wheels made a racket rolling over the roof. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z To the racket Of chicharron Being devoured By adult teeth In a fourth grader’s head. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I somehow managed to hit myself in the head with my racket and clip Mike’s shoulder on the same swing. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z We got Grandma Smith’s old wooden tennis rackets and pedaled off to Phoenix University, where we tried to play tennis with the dead balls other people had left behind. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We can bounce the soccer ball against the gray walls until the manager comes outside and says, “Cut out that racket.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z While the rolls were rising, Naomi cleaned the living room and did every chore she could without causing a racket. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s a law of the rackets that every criminal expects to get caught. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Sissy threw Katie into another spasm of giggles by mumbling from the closet that the tenants had a nerve raising such a racket when there was a sick woman in the house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I stepped outside into the confusion and racket. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Just keep it short,” she says over the racket of cheeps when I ask her if I can use her phone. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Mom says my music is a racket, but to me it’s like the theme music to my life. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Though I was out of the tournament, I returned regularly to Ellis Park, dressed in my tennis outfit and carrying my rackets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Two bucks for a candle? What a racket! Maybe you could convince somebody from the old country to shell out for that kind of thing, but not here in the U.S.A.!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I solicited old rackets and tennis balls from the players and the tournament organizers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “And please don’t make such a racket. I told you I was coming back. Oh, there’s my bauble...” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z At this, a small dog began to raise a racket, down the hall in 2-E. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He held in one arm a stuffed Adidas duffel bag; in the other, three Head tennis rackets, the Arthur Ashe Competition model. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Three o’clock the racket stops and the mens get in they truck and leave. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I was bewildered; I had never heard such a racket before. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The goose heard the racket and she, too, started hollering. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z His voice was drowned out by the racket in the kitchen. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He immediately stood out from the rest of us because his tennis clothes and rackets were worth at least twice the tennis team’s annual budget. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a veritable racket of gratitude on the other end, and Dede has to smile at some of the imported nonsense of this woman’s Spanish. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sister did not approve of them being carried down the ward “like tennis rackets.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I packed my three rackets and two extra shirts and a pair of shorts in a duffel bag. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the ringing of tiny tennis rackets against tiny snow skis, of miniature Eiffel Towers against half-inch ballerinas on point. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A glorious racket came from the branches—tweedling notes, peeps, burbles, high sharp calls. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I still couldn’t see anyone, but someone was going to notice all this racket pretty soon. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “We always shoot the dogs without sound. But can Fred focus with all that racket?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z There were rackets and rods, balls and bats, and even ropes—for jumping Double Dutch or lassoing cattle, I guess. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “You boys cut out that racket back there!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The racket stops, the door opens and the man is there, white hair, thick glasses, white sweater, a stick in his hand. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Even in the dark, I couldn’t help but know when I was getting close: There was more hogs than a person could ever count, and the racket they made was something terrible. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “What’s the racket going on in here?” demanded Helen, coming in. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Never mind that the day after they would arm me with a racket before unleashing me on the rest of the class. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I miss the hot sun on the back of my neck and how now the racket of cicadas, seems like no sound at all. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Cordelia and I are elated, we racket along the sidewalk through the twilight while the cars drift past us, hushed and slowed by the snow. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Those boys beat us fair and square. Beat us like we’d never seen a tennis racket before, much less picked one up.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z With that much racket going on, I knew we’d scare all the game clear out of the country. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “I heard the racket from in here. Sounded like y’all put the hurt on him. The heroes in your comics would be proud.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Overhead the great racketing fans of the helicopters hovered. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “All I’m saying is that you brainiacs have a nice racket going here.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z When I want to study, they make a terrible racket. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I had my three rackets with me in a bag slung over my shoulder. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The afternoon was alive with the racket of a thousand different songbirds calling to us from the grove, surrounding us with their chants, their hymns, their lullabies. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The irritating thing was that in the racket of voices Winston could hardly hear what Parsons was saying, and was constantly having to ask for some fatuous remark to be repeated. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z One was the son of a famous West Coast racket boss and the other was the son of a movie producer. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I felt a tiny bit self-conscious as we carried our rackets and basket of balls to the empty court. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The racket released the bear from the charm Lyddie seemed to have placed on him. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Outside, there was a racket of crows, startled by some passerby in the street. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z But the obstacles facing them were many, almost insuperable: they had no rackets, no balls, no decent tennis courts, no shoes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She had to raise her voice to be heard over the racket. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He yelled down the staircase for the terrible racket to stop or he would call the police. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “I’ll just have to drag the stupid thing. It’s going to make an awful racket, though, so hang on.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z With all the engine racket, he couldn’t hear a word I said. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Mama looked up at me, ignoring the racket. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Suffer through that racket or work in an oven. That fan doesn’t really cut it on a day like today.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Mr. have to call down to tell them to shut up the racket. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She and Imogen had often come home together with rackets and water bottles, talking about their tennis games, when they had probably never played tennis at all. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I couldn’t believe the racket she was making—she sounded like a duck swallowing a harmonica. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z With a racket in his hand—and when he could remember to keep his temper and his serve under control—Reggie really thrived. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I wouldn't give him nothing, Lana. He’s operating some kinda shake- down racket, if you ast me. If this kid’s a orphan. I’m the queen of England.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind made a racket in the treetops, but I didn’t hear Miss Willis or her piano. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Billy had heard about this racket from a speaker at the Lions Club two weeks before—a man from the Better Business Bureau. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Dogs started to bark and howl, kept it up for a few minutes—the racket died down. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Connors says something nice to me and Nicole adjusts the strings on her racket. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Then there were rackets like the Klan’s Death Benefit Association, which sold insurance policies to Klan members and accepted only cash or personal checks made out to the Grand Dragon himself. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z They made a very impressive racket, clattering on the hard deck and rolling in a hundred directions. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Abruptly, the quiet is shattered by the percussive racket of the helicopter, which spirals down from the clouds and lands in a patch of fireweed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Almost every pro in the world says that he uses his wrist to roll the racket over the ball when he hits a forehand,” Braden says. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “What he was looking for were your tennis rackets,” my brother told me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z This reminded me of Mom and how she called punk music “a racket.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The air vibrated with the same inharmonic racket of squealing, burbling, croaking, and cheeping birds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Two teenaged boys lived there, and their deck overflowed with soccer balls, baseball bats, tennis rackets, basketballs, hockey sticks, and apparatus from games Luke could only guess at. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z When rival thieves took up the racket, he suspended the stealing until the culprits were caught and the bakery owners dropped their guard. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He had moved to the bed of Glenn’s truck, his racket in hand. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They were making such an awful racket that the mullet scattered out of the eddies, and I knew that the fishing was pretty much shot for the afternoon. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I couldn’t believe the racket she was making—she sounded like a duck swallowing a harmonica. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z She then collected her tennis things—racket, hand towel, and sun hat—and followed Selena. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Then you say to yourself “Them toady-frogs sure were putting up a awful racket, how come I didn’t notice it afore?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Ophie made her way back to Mrs. Caruthers’s room, scrubbing at her cheeks as the old woman howled for her afternoon tea, the racket enough to wake the dead. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z And she was perpetually irritated by Joe and his teenaged friends and their makeshift bands, out on the wide front porch, making a racket day and night. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I’m taking Cora for some supper,” Ridgeway said, and led her into the racket. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Reality didn’t fully set in until I was handed a racket. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Since I’m not a total spaz with the racket, Ms. Connors pairs me off with Jock Goddess Nicole to demonstrate the game to the rest of the class. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The second time he was arrested, months later, he “admitted,” according to the police, that the Nation of Islam was nothing but “a racket.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z My second student was a fifty-six-year-old “society photographer” from Windsor, Ontario, named R. Howard Ridgefield, who said that his wife had been after him for years to branch over into the painting racket. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z With the shutters open, I can look out down the driveway at the street, and hear the birds making a racket. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z I spent the rest of the hour in the back corner of the court, the racket held safely behind my back. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I never heard such a racket in all my life. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They are racketing around up north somewhere and I would have the house to myself; but my idea of myself and my parents’ idea of me no longer belong in the same place. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The white mobsters had the numbers racket split into specific areas. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z That had been almost as lucrative a racket as setting fires up in the Midnight Mountains and then hiring on with the Forest Service to fight them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The second I opened the closet door, Stradlater's tennis racket--in its wooden press and all--fell right on my head. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z It was like a library in there, tall stacks of rods, shirts, hats, pants, shoes and jackets, and tennis rackets and inflatable rafts lining the narrow aisles. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I lowered it out the window, trying not to make too much racket. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Mama yelled over the racket, “Hoyt, I just cain’t believe it! When did you buy it? Can we afford it? Where did you have it hid? Does Pa know about it?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Even in there, we could hear the racket from hundreds of thousands of chicks chirping. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Master placed his racket down on the kitchen table. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I was still sitting in the garage, at one with my lawn mower, feeling a little overwhelmed...okay, a lot overwhelmed...okay, completely terrified and panicked, when I heard a racket in the driveway. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He smiled, giving her a small wave with his racket. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “The nuns across the street are going to complain,” Lorraine yelled to me over the racket. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Despite their success, Hall and Ball were concerned about their long-term prospects in the professional climbing racket. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “And all those rackets? Are you a professional?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I could hear the bolt being slid into place, and then a racket of furniture banging and panicked dialogue. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I admit, I’ve always had a hankering to get into this racket, but now I have an opening. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Thunder rumbled through the night, rattling Ivy Aberdeen’s bedroom windows and making a beautiful racket. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He had to lean in to be heard over the racket. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “It would explain the racket,” she murmured, trying to sound casual. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I never heard such a racket in all my life. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z West Indian Archie’s known to be the meanest, most powerful numbers runner in the racket. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z They picked up sticks and racketed along the slats. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z But how could she say she had heard nothing but the beastly racket of the looms? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She fiddled with the strings of her racket, straightening them the way players do on TV. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The car made a swell racket, and if I went slow, folks who heard me coming had plenty time to run out on the porch and watch me drive by. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Coach Hedge seemed to be making some sort of snare out of kite string, a tennis racket and a hunting knife. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Bernard kept up his racket for another twenty minutes, while Mary just peered out at him, disgusted. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In the boodeg racket I was involved in, someone high up must have been taken for a real pile. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z From the racket he made, you’d have thought I had a club and was breaking every bone in his body. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Gunning his way up a long hill, Ralph sideswiped a metal garbage can; empty, it fell racketing down the incline. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s all right, Lyra,” Malcolm said, “you know who we are. What a racket! I should think they can hear you all the way across the river and into the Trout.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “If that racket’s life, I wouldn’t take it with coupons,” he said. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The racket echoed from the house and the woods, setting off a flock of crows. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He races from the blaze of brightness and the deafening racket. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z They were making such a tremendous racket that I thought surely Mr Stringer would hear it and come banging at the door. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z I knocked on the wall to stop all the racket. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z I lay down again and fought to go back to sleep over the meerkats’ racket. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I had a feeling old Ackley'd probably heard all the racket and was awake. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Fannie’s head pounded from the racket of the high-speed sewing machines. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z But I guess she doesn’t understand me, because she just kept making a racket. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z The door lever was left of the driver’s seat, and as she walked toward it, she heard an awful racket behind her. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, all at once, he stomps on the distortion pedal and the song blooms with bone-shaking noise — the most fitting eulogy for a musician who made as raucous a racket as Hawkins. Foo Fighters Are Shaken Yet Still Standing on ‘But Here We Are’ 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z “They may say that but it’s a racket among the lawyers,” says the talent manager. Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and the search for the perfect PR Hollywood divorce 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z It is the story of a partly crippled, dance-loving social outcast known as Grigris, who gets involved with a gasoline smuggling racket to raise money for his sick stepfather. Danish director Refn splatters Cannes festival with violence 2013-05-22T15:19:39Z Apes beat their breasts and made a racket. Cultural Studies: Food Is the Latest Arena for Macho Contests 2012-09-15T00:37:02Z One example: “My study effort about the numbers racket was accompanied by other research fulfilling a separate line of inquiry, an article I was writing about the national movement seeking reparations for slavery.” Books of The Times: A Young Writer Goes Searching for Harlem 2011-01-25T18:58:36Z St. Lucia turned even more digital in its numbing set of faux new wave, its performance the quietest noise that can be made by five people striving to make a racket. Critic’s Notebook: Bastille and St. Lucia Take Different Musical Routes 2014-01-24T22:51:14Z Mr. Davis even wrote an account of his experience running a numbers racket at the Buckley School in the fifth grade. Peter Davis to Introduce a Society Magazine 2012-02-29T23:17:03Z I gasped, while bending to touch the strategically placed cone on the service line with my racket. 2010-02-05T06:22:00Z They land in the nursery, just as their poor mother’s heart is breaking and their father is cursing the infernal racket. NBC's Peter Pan Live!: Recap 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z I Hank Marvinned we all did with badminton rackets in front of our mirrors. ‘Creation Stories’ Review: The Man Behind a Raucous Record Label 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Though there are few places in the city where one can escape the clamor of construction, there’s something disconcerting about the racket of drilling and hammering in the context of a plastic surgeon’s office. My boobs, my burden 2014-02-24T01:00:00Z The toddler Connors, grasping his racket with his trademark double fisted grip, would quickly learn how to fire them back just as hard. The Outsider: My Autobiograpgy by Jimmy Connors – review 2013-05-27T06:30:01Z After learning the preacher racket from a man who called himself Jehovia, Divine began his public life running a for-hire work service, gigging out early followers as maids and day laborers. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z The buddies who cook up that clever racket are at the heart of this latest western from Kelly Reichardt. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘First Cow’ and ‘The Line’ 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z How very current of them, this Sam Smith racket has only been in the charts for two weeks. Strictly Come Dancing 2015: week three – as it happened 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Belgium remained solidly behind me, and, as the racket back home finally faded, we continued to amass a record of success. The ambassador’s tale: Lessons I learned about success and scandal 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Walls are covered in tile mosaics of deer heads, fireplaces and badminton rackets, and a painting of a digitized fox hunt hangs behind the bar. 7 Party Hot Spots Opening in New York This Fall 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z He said he “tried, like, every racket sport there is.” He picked up pickleball a few years ago. Now he is the national champion. 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Esse has playground fun with hula hoops and badminton rackets in the picnic dance bonanza “Once a Year Day,” and his most interesting numbers are spaghetti-limbed inventions for second bananas. Review | Splashy ‘Pajama Game’ at Arena Stage aims to seduce with 1950s style 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z An impromptu "punk percussion" band turned up at the South African Embassy, spilled red paint, and made a racket on pots and pans to harass representatives of the apartheid regime. Rites of Spring and the summer that changed punk rock 2012-11-27T14:23:35Z Nearby, a beekeeper trainee wielded a bug zapper shaped like a tennis racket. The Murder Hornet Hunters of Paris 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z The urgent question facing his family: How do you slaughter a pig without making a racket that alerts your hungry neighbors to your bounty? | 'Tales From the Golden Age': ?Tales From the Golden Age? - Review 2011-08-25T23:16:18Z Nick I agree about the schools, which are nothing more than a rich parents' racket. Is nepotism ever acceptable? 2011-04-09T23:05:55Z Ears plugged against the racket of their machinery, several miners remain oblivious to the thunderous explosion until they are knocked off their feet by the ensuing shock wave. Hector Tobar's 'Deep Down Dark' chronicles Chile's mine-shaft miracle 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z If he were what was considered a good citizen in Nazi-occupied Poland, he would have reported them instead of hiding them; he is essentially running a protection racket. In Darkness: How a Swindler Became a Schindler 2012-02-09T16:59:24Z They switched their focus to dampening the racket rather than stopping it, and ultimately achieved some solace by soundproofing the snorer’s walls with cheap foam they found on eBay. Why you snore, when to be concerned and how to stop 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z We would have realized what a f—– racket it was. The Master’s Joaquin Phoenix on Animal Inspirations, Curb Your Enthusiasm and the Pleasures of Discomfort 2012-09-13T12:00:22Z Matt leads a group of officers, including Harlee, whose members work a shakedown racket, convincing themselves that they’re serving the public good by keeping criminals in check, drugs away from schools and so on. Review: Jennifer Lopez as a Conflicted Cop in ‘Shades of Blue’ 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z That accusation resonates with Al, who resents Lucky’s “request” to run the rackets like a business, with everybody playing by the same rules across the country. 'Boardwalk Empire' recap: Uprising in Cuba turns deadly 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z First, it has to be said, is the amateurism of the performance itself: an awful, attention-hustling racket, musically horrible, lyrically adolescent; poetry-free provocation. Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer – review 2013-06-13T11:02:19Z And it’s annoying if the sole cause for the racket is that the light turned green two milliseconds before. Social Q?s: When Friends Drift 2011-08-04T20:05:05Z Her racket is guardianship: identifying powerless retirees, having them falsely declared mentally incompetent and herself appointed their legal conservator. ‘I Care a Lot’ Review: The Art of the Steal 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z The story’s most entertaining aspect may be its portrayal of Dexter, with his carefully compartmentalized world, “an array of ancillary rackets both legal and illegal.” In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan’s heroine dives deep for family secrets 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Keepers got tuppence an hour extra in fog to compensate for the racket. World's strangest orchestra - a foghorn, brass bands and 50 ships 2013-03-26T07:00:00Z Roger Federer arrives at the French Open tennis tournament this weekend not just as the king of the courts and an icon of class, but also a poetic inspiration with a racket. Perspective | Why Roger Federer is the most graceful athlete of our time 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z “You guys aren’t going to be making a racket are you?” he said, before leaving and returning for a quick look at Saturn through a Nasa telescope. Stargazing and starstruck, Girl Scouts camp out on White House lawn 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z My friends and I formed an air band that “played” the B-52’s “Strobe Light” on tennis rackets. The Go-Go’s Gave Us the Beat and So Much More 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z This means they sometimes rescued trivial items — tennis rackets or frozen foods — instead of their record collections or irreplaceable artwork. Why your belongings hold so much meaning, and how to decide what to grab in an emergency 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z “That’s the reason so many of us in the advice racket spend so much time telling women to break up” with crummy guys, he added — using a substantially more pungent adjective. Operatic Codependency? We Put Wagner on the Couch 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The trafficking isn’t funny, but the ancillary criminal scams are; when the pill-mill racket gets too dangerous, a lawyer recruits the dismally unsuccessful Dr. Arnold Lip to run a clinic that diagnoses lawsuit-worthy injuries. Books of The Times: New Comic Novels From Dave Barry and Tim Dorsey 2013-01-16T20:43:01Z But the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, which is celebrating its 10th birthday, is a world-famous exception: a 20-plus outfit that respects musical detail, and doesn't wind up every expedition with a racket like an artillery battle. This week's new live music 2012-11-24T00:05:34Z He runs what amounts to a daily protection racket, and orchestrates a group of no more than 2,000 businessmen and top officials who control things. Mr Putin, Operative in the Kremlin by Fiona Hill and Clifford G Gaddy – review 2013-05-10T08:00:02Z The botanist's pose: can in hand, head turned to see where that racket was coming from, wearing that blue flannel shirt. "E.T." at 40: A personal reflection on the importance of a "closed story" 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z I was only there for a one-off consultation in search of a second opinion, and suspected this magical fake hair was probably a Harley Street racket to rip off the gullible rich. How to get through chemotherapy: Decca Aitkenhead on cancer treatment 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z For all the emphasis on running, participants still need to know how to use a racket. Urban Athlete: Cardio Tennis to Gain Endorphins and Lose Weight 2010-06-03T22:21:00Z Some kind of organized crime racket operates out of Fargo, and there are several hit men on different assignments in Bemidji. Television Review: ‘Fargo,’ a TV Series Riffing on the Film, Begins on FX 2014-04-14T21:28:35Z At the end you may decide, as I did, that this ambitious racket is somewhat hollow: the book never coheres or locates its own beating heart. Books of The Times: A Young Writer Goes Searching for Harlem 2011-01-25T18:58:36Z One of the better comic riffs was that racketeering is like any other racket: profits dwindle, employees shirk their duties, and younger protégés don’t know their place. The TV Watch: A Complicated Actor Who Made a Complicated Mob Boss Indelible 2013-06-20T23:08:03Z It starts with jolly jazz in a Chicago speakeasy and ends by showing how protection rackets become a metaphor for political evil. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – review 2012-07-12T11:13:26Z In the '90s and aughts E! seized the celebrity feature and awards red carpet racket, loosening MTV's exclusive claim to celebrity access. Long ago, younger viewers wanted their MTV News. Can we learn from what it did right in its prime? 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z She also complained about the noise, saying that she had invested in triple-paneled wooden windows and shutters in the last two years to help keep out the racket. Going to Europe This Summer? You’re Not Alone. 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The whole thing – like the rest of Mad Max: Fury Road itself – is an absolute racket. Mad Max: the story behind the flame-throwing, scene-stealing guitar guy 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Sticks clack, skates shoosh, and the puck clanks into the boards, creating a racket that echoes. They can’t see, but blind hockey players can pass, shoot and score 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z “Just anything to keep a racket in my hand,” she said. The way these older amateur athletes are staying fit despite the pandemic offers lessons for all ages 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Over the last decade, however, it’s grown in popularity as a racket sport with a lower barrier to entry than tennis that offers recreation without the years of fine-tuning it might take to play competitively. Pickleball Is Ready for Prime Time 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z And Die By The Drop's eerie racket sounds like The Hardest Button To Button remixed by the king of Hell into a track as spooky as Jack and Meg still pretending to be related. Singles out this week 2010-04-23T23:16:00Z Unfortunately, Diamond is too one-sided in his treatment of race, making excuses for black gangs and for the exploitative numbers rackets that plague black neighborhoods. Four Books Explore Various Aspects of Cities Past and Present 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z In this racket, it’s increasingly hard to tell. Swag, charm and birthday party invites: how to win an Oscar in 2020 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Sound Far from thunderous, but still something of a racket at peak. The Extras Are the Stars on the Korean Menu at Atoboy 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z The most fragile souls wound up in stuffy hotel conference rooms under the banner of Werner Erhard's Forum, where an authoritarian patriarch urged them to simply sweep away their "rackets" like so many dust bunnies. "In Treatment's" darkest season yet 2010-10-23T23:01:00Z And then the pause, before the great whirling racket of gongs and oscillators and clocks and a violin and laughter. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-08-11T22:00:00Z We get the irony, or rather, the sarcasm: Metal’s grandiose racket seems completely disconnected from the banal lives endured by some of its listeners. ‘Days of the Bagnold Summer’ Review: 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Based on the investigation of a 1960s heroin racket, this breathless policier accelerates steadily to bullet velocity. The Week Ahead: Sept. 11 ? Sept. 17 2011-09-09T14:39:13Z On another visit, Stefánie gleefully says, “It’s great being a woman… I look helpless, and everyone helps me. It’s a racket. Women get away with murder!” Susan Faludi on gender, feminism and her own “Transparent” story: “We’re at a moment when identity is the battlefield” 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Advancements in racket technology along with bigger, stronger and fitter players have created a ferocious brand of shot-making and recast tennis as more macho, hipper, no longer the essence of country-club chic. 2010-02-05T06:22:00Z Ramos followed up his first act by giving Williams a point penalty for smashing her racket, and then a game penalty for verbal abuse. Serena Williams has earned the respect of a world that can’t bear to give it to her 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Warmth, movement, light and all our musical racket. Robert Pinsky’s new poetry collection is considered and timely 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Living in a 14th-floor apartment, he rages at the noisy neighbours, the clanging garbage-cans, the endless racket of the unsleeping city. The Prisoner of Second Avenue 2010-07-13T15:10:00Z If anyone tried to make any racket around me, my mom would smooth my hair over my ears. I prayed my mom would leave 2012-09-05T00:00:00Z At night, Straw would lie in bed listening to the rows, the racket echoed by a neighbour below banging a broom furiously on his ceiling in a desperate effort to restore peace. Jack Straw: 'I didn't have a nervous breakdown, but I was close to one' 2012-09-29T23:07:05Z In those heady days, it seemed like the future belonged to serious young men making a tinnitus-inducing racket on laptops. Hidden Treasures: Gas – Gas 2013-03-19T16:12:15Z Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian I am in a room with five adolescent boys who are making a right old racket on an array of drums, xylophones, maracas and castanets. How music helps children to deal with bereavement 2013-02-24T19:00:01Z Little Girls don't make a racket like Wednesday's new band , nor is their noise of the freakadelic grunge variety like yesterday's lot. New band of the day ? No 772: Little Girls 2010-04-23T12:02:00Z I learned that truth long after hanging up my cape and leaving the birthday party racket for good. Review | In ‘Here We Are,’ Booker Prize winner Graham Swift casts a spell 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Some of that episode sounds like a fussy little racket; some sounds like a clacking long-lost friend. “Slow Radio,” The Podcast That Promotes Monks, Moose, and Inner Peace 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z It is a Mangaesque imagining of a brown-skinned woman with a tennis racket and a cascade of pink hair not unlike a wig Ms. Osaka wore in a recent Instagram post. How Naomi Osaka Became Everyone’s Favorite Spokesmodel 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Another show, “Black Widow,” a Dutch crime series, is like “The Sopranos,” if Tony got whacked in Episode 1 and Carmela took over the mob rackets. Walter Presents: A Chic TV Boutique With a Foreign Accent 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The camera tracks a concrete sphere as it skitters along the street, making a racket and, inevitably, ending up in a gutter. Art In Review: JAMES NARES: ?1976: Movies, Photographs and Related Works on Paper? 2012-01-26T23:25:11Z “The fight racket, since its rotten beginnings, has been the red light district of sports. But,” he lamented, “this is the first time it has been turned into an instrument of mass hate.” “They’ve got to kill me. They can’t afford to let me live”: Inside the amazing friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z It's a whole different racket, and not very profitable, so we said: "Why don't we make a record with this book?" Numero Group: the crate-digging record label's top 10 2013-06-13T16:05:50Z Upon the black glazed surface appears the familiar image of the hooded torture victim at Abu Ghraib, enveloped within a larger, clownish ghost, whose speech bubble reads, "War is a racket." Resistance in clay: Ceramic artists speak out against Trump, war and more in 'We the People' 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z It’s a term that invites visions of dissatisfaction: an expansive dinner plate bearing a quail nugget in a puddle of reduction; a clutterless white room where one’s breath registers as a racket. Perspective | The late composer Jon Gibson helped save minimalism from itself 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z The kitchen is right next to an entertainment room, where two young children and a woman were making a racket at the pool table, with only a thin, frosted-glass partition between them. The most-followed U.S. congressman on TikTok is doing a delicate dance 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z The Monkey King wants a tennis racket which belongs to Samuel's uncle which will allow him to talk to all the animals in the zoo and share his evil plan with them. Granny Samurai by John Chambers- review 2013-05-24T14:00:00Z Bring the Noize, released yesterday, is a frantic, Public Enemy-referencing racket, a very different animal than the British musician's biggest hit, Paper Planes. MIA to make final attempt at releasing album with Interscope 2013-06-18T09:38:18Z Parents saunter in with their kids, the whole family toting tennis rackets. Check in to work out at these fitness-focused hotels 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z It takes practice to get good at hitting the shuttlecock with the racket, especially when you’re on the run. With a ball or a hoop, you’ve got the makings of summer fun 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z “The amount of degradation and bodily injury” to pay off such rackets “can only be imagined,” stated the . Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z And you wonder — what other highbrow writer, or indeed lowbrow writer, has such a reflexive grasp of the street, the machine, the law courts, the rackets? ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Was that really me, hitting forehands and backhands with my racket drooping on its follow-through like water-starved vegetation and stiffly moving forward to drop flat-footed volleys into the net? 2010-02-05T06:22:00Z Watch as the Slow Mo guys dramatically swat tennis rackets at large slabs of Jello while filming the act in—what else?—slow motion. Watch Tennis Rackets Slice Through Jello In Slow-Motion 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Children were to be quiet, lest the racket bother the neighbors below Ma’s Flatbush apartment. In ‘ ’Til the Well Runs Dry,’ a tale turns on a West Indian woman’s secrets In his obituary, Lansky, who died in 1983, is described as the “reputed financial genius of the underworld,” with his fingers presumed to be in bootlegging, gambling in Cuba and other rackets. ‘Lansky’ Review: A Mobster Burnishes His Legacy 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z “Justice in this town is a protection racket,” someone says. The Straightforward Trashiness of “I Am the Night” 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z He is also always on the lookout for the commonplace items — tennis rackets, computer keys, garden hoses — that he uses to build his installations. | Westchester: Federico Uribe’s Man-Made Nature, in Yonkers 2013-06-21T23:35:51Z Prints underline the theme with fancy paisley, dandy tartans and beach umbrella stripes as well as a series of motif prints ranging from dolphins and sea horses to anchors and tennis rackets. Milan designers tip hat to summer elegance 2011-06-20T22:31:13Z Is there still time to de-Foxify Fox News — labeled a “hate-for-profit racket” by Elizabeth Warren — and other conservative News Corp outlets? James Murdoch, Rebellious Scion 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z “It comes back really quick,” Mr. Ristic said reassuringly, handing him a blue racket. Caleb McLaughlin of ‘Stranger Things’ Slays Tennis Balls 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Extortion, blackmail and protection rackets all proved healthy, if not entirely honorable, sources of income. 7 of the most amazing women you’ve never heard of 2014-01-20T20:00:00Z From here he worked as a reporter on Fleet Street before returning to the US to pick apricots and string tennis rackets. A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler, A Life by Tom Williams – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z “Vida” makes a lot of racket while trying to be sex-positive; like “Looking” and “Girls,” these scenes aim to be frank and provocative but can just as easily come off as gratuitous and immature. Review | Beneath ‘Vida’s’ so-so take on family drama, there’s a better show about gentrification 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Their teeming presence, the unpleasant surprise of their crunching underfoot, and yes, the racket they brought with them, was an intrusion of nature into our hermetically sealed and sanitized daily lives. A Summer of Buzzing Bugs, Tunes or Mets’ Losses 2013-08-29T21:54:01Z There are ways to hold down the racket, though, such as ceiling tiles, foam pads, even ropes snaked around pipes and table legs. Is Restaurant Noise a Crime? Our Critic Mounts a Ringing Defense 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z If women are going to make their mark in all levels of career and personal goals, they must stop feeling intimidated by men and their protection racket. Long Wharf Theater Leader Is Accused of Sexual Misconduct 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Real tennis is the game from which racket sports evolved, but requires different skills from lawn tennis. Experience: I’m a 13-time world champion at real tennis 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Their job is to collect payments from dozens of street gangs for a protection racket run by the mysterious Wizard, who is currently incarcerated. ‘The Tax Collector’ Review: Street Gangs and Family Values 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z But unlike tennis rackets, guns weren’t kept in our home. Shoot first, ask questions later: The destructive downside to America’s cult of DIY personal security 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z It was , superficially, a real racket, but the winds inside the storm were all moving in destructive tandem. ArtsBeat: CMJ: A Storm in the Quiet 2012-10-17T08:16:25Z But the real work of those two generations, as this suitably in-your-face memoir reveals, began only when young Jimbo picked up a racket. The Outsider: My Autobiograpgy by Jimmy Connors – review 2013-05-27T06:30:01Z This week, we’re bringing you stories about grifts, cons, and rackets—and about the circumstances that led eventually to their unmasking. Sunday Reading: Schemes, Frauds, and Swindles 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Sometimes the triggers are obvious: The use of Varsity Red, for example, summons up Ferris Bueller collegiate nostalgia; gold and purple call to mind a Lakers game; and white is associated with racket sports. The Secret Psychology of Sneaker Colors 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z The Roman rabble tend to race around hysterically, causing a racket. 5 plays at Oregon Shakespeare Festival: a critic's take 2011-07-31T04:07:15Z Rønnenfelt could be singing pure Goebbels, but his gloopy bark is typically unintelligible amid the racket of a band who don't seem to stand for anything so much as stand against everything. Iceage – review 2013-02-27T17:47:07Z He later put down his racket and entered the oil industry. Texas oilman turned art detective drills deep for 'Monuments Men' 2014-02-06T23:40:53Z Early one morning in 1992, I was suddenly awakened from a jet-lagged sleep in my Art Nouveau extravaganza of a Budapest hotel by an awful, clanging racket. What to do with Confederate monuments? Put them in museums as examples of ugly history, not civic pride 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Or it may be the sound of a very elegant theatrical protection racket. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z When we started earning rent from this racket, we felt a lot of internal pressure to stay true to our adolescent dissatisfactions: not adolescent like immature or naive, adolescent like terminally disenfranchised and pure. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'You make music for the king and his court, or for the serfs outside the walls' 2012-10-11T09:18:00Z “I was so upset that I broke my racket,” she said, before he confessed that he was far from a novice. Cece Wedel and Mauricio Perez: After a Clumsy First Kiss, Making Out Just Fine 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z The racket subsides a bit when the Eight Daoist Immortals appear, bearded, fat and eccentric, like so many Falstaffs. Art Review: ‘Theater, Life, and the Afterlife’ at China Institute 2012-05-31T22:11:08Z Spencer Tracy, in his second feature, stars as “Bugs” Raymond, a shrewd, cocky roughneck who rises from working-stiff truck driver to the ruling racket boss of an unnamed Midwestern metropolis. In ‘Quick Millions,’ a Young Spencer Tracy Knocks ‘Em Dead 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z In a dark, cold cargo container parked next to the Center for Urban Horticulture, underwater soundscapes are building up to an unearthly percussive racket. 'Axial: Undersea volcano star of sound installation at UW 2011-12-09T19:33:04Z Most importantly, though, Mary-Anne apparently sent the former Guardian TV editor a basket of cakes once, and frankly that’s the sort of racket that I want to get in on. Every Great British Bake Off contestant ranked in order of greatness 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z In the album’s liner notes, the band offers “special thanks from these louses to our spouses for letting us make all this racket around the houses.” Elvis Costello rocks out from the back porch 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Or, as Odets beautifully summed it up: "This boxing racket is a ghost - it's the city dumps with a buncha scrawny pelicans scratching around for bits of food." Review: 'Golden Boy' returns with golden touches 2012-12-07T04:16:04Z I sleep until I wake myself up with this throaty racket and then I lie here trying to remember how a normal person’s breathing sounds when they sleep. How sleep became the new must-have 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z In concert the band produces a stunning racket for just two dudes, a concentrated Zeppelin-ish stomp, seething and faintly familiar. The Black Keys best bet for holiday rock bashes 2010-12-03T01:07:00Z The subjects of his paintings swing rackets in tennis whites, slow dance in full skirts, play the horn in fedoras. From Punk Band to Portraits for a King to Gagosian: Honor Titus Breaks Out 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Near the end of their set, the foursome played tennis onstage — using a racket at times and a guitar and banjo at others. Mumford & Sons Perform at Forest Hills Reopening 2013-08-29T19:00:53Z He is a despot and the leader of the Saviors, a group that runs a protection racket, offering small communities security in exchange for supplies. 'The Walking Dead': Who Is Negan? 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z I was with him when he died, and felt a kind of only-in-New York irritation at the terrible racket outside his bedroom window during his last hours. Remembering Saul Steinberg 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z At this point in his career, Capone is a glorified bagman, shaking down bar owners for boss Johnny Torrio's protection racket. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Unhappy surprises 2010-10-11T05:01:00Z We teed up bottles on a pedestal, and destroyed a printer; we tried all the weapons – hammers, baseball bats, tennis rackets, an axe – and jokingly suggested rage-inducing scenarios. Experience: I regularly smash things in a rage room 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z He already runs most of L.A.’s rackets and many of its politicians. Gangster Squad: Heroes as Violent as the Villains 2013-01-11T18:15:43Z As for the racket, that's Mexican sound artist Hugo Solis' idea of what an eruption of the volcano might be like at 4,500 feet below the sea's surface. 'Axial: Undersea volcano star of sound installation at UW 2011-12-09T19:33:04Z A good enough story can make a man a fortune in the entertainment business, or in the pharmaceutical racket. "Bullsh*t: The Game Show" and our love of liars and lying 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z “At one point, as national magazines began to expose the worst of the fraudulent real estate rackets, the industry fought back with an event called ‘The Truth About Florida,’ which was exactly the opposite. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Maybe she’d think we were clever and whisk us away forever into a castle that could not possibly be a façade for the world’s most successful $10 corn dog and plastic merchandise racket. Disneyland with my invisible guest 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z The advert specified someone with good racket skills, and as I’d been playing modern lawn tennis since I was nine, and was the No 1 tennis junior in the state, I couldn’t resist. Experience: I’m a 13-time world champion at real tennis 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z The town in question was Pittsburgh, and the 20th-century renaissance there sprawled from music to journalism to sports to the numbers racket. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Richie knows that there’s only one reason Billy would be in Devon’s bedroom, but he commandeers Billy’s tennis racket and starts swinging it around with gusto. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap: Bats and Tennis Rackets 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Bioff’s racket was to control the trade unions and demand regular payoffs from the studios to avoid strikes. Review | The incredible life of ‘Handsome Johnny,’ a gangster worthy of the movies 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Private preschool is a disturbing kind of racket. Private preschool is a racket 2013-09-05T13:50:00Z The setting — Britain, public housing — distinguishes this film from the original, although with the exception of one neighbor there’s a curious indifference among nearby residents in this urban setting to the racket. Review: In ‘The Conjuring 2,’ Ghostly Violence Has a British Accent 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z He was an expert with a tennis racket and a confident, yet sensitive, boyfriend who never forgot to bring flowers. Transgender people don’t all want to look like Barbie or Ken 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z So the 11-episode season isn’t just the story of Italian and Black gangs fighting to dominate the rackets in Kansas City. ‘Fargo’ Review: Kansas City, Here We Come 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z "I have to say now, being more aware of my senses, I notice more beauty, but I also notice more racket and stink, but I like that." Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z "Making an immense racket on the piano helped to make sense of the chaos around me." Why Cerys Matthews wants to teach the world to sing 2013-06-01T05:59:01Z The boys walked around the facility carrying tennis rackets almost as big as them, and Frances quickly developed a fascination with the game. Perspective | I once lost a tennis game to Frances Tiafoe. I was 24, he was 13. 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Start with a big, old-fashioned attic, cluttered with trunks and tennis rackets and hat boxes. ‘Stuart Little’ gets a larger-than-life stage adaptation at Adventure Theatre MTC “All over the city there were people like them, a whole mean army of schemers and nocturnal masterminds working their rackets,” Whitehead writes. Review | With ‘Harlem Shuffle,’ Colson Whitehead proves once again that he’s a master of reinvention 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z It’s the peril of the live performance racket: Once a performance is scuttled, those revenues are gone. Hey, Stars, Be Nice to the Stagehands. You Might Need a Loan. 2013-12-28T02:11:03Z George and Lorraine enter; he’s suave, holding a tennis racket, laughing and wearing aviator glasses; she demands a rematch and he swats her on the rear. Happy “Back to the Future” Day 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Stars Five Ghosts Vagrant Records Montreal's Stars make a very different sound to the euphoric, genre-colliding racket of the members' other group, Broken Social Scene. Stars: The Five Ghosts 2010-07-29T22:15:00Z The rackets are controlled by billionaire hedge fund operators and mortgage scams that have crippled the economy at taxpayer expense. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z The effect of all the electronically treated racket was more meditative than aggressive. Everything about veteran indie-rock group Low is emotionally constrained 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z This is a movie in which the racket kicked up by various couples “boinking,” to use its favorite euphemism, is enough to wake up an entire city. Movie Review: ‘The Big Wedding,’ a Farce With Keaton and De Niro 2013-04-26T00:06:16Z The scalper racket is as strong as ever, but even scalpers’ more capricious price schemes, anywhere from $50 to upward of $500, are now further within range of budget travelers. Fall of Ruble Benefits Tourists to Russia 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Compared with traditional racket sports, pickleball is less expensive, requires less space and may be more compatible with the aches and pains that come with age. Pickleball’s uphill climb to mainstream success 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z When your plane cabin is a racket, when music is thumping through the walls of your hotel room, or when you simply can’t quiet your mind, ear plugs just won’t do. The Getaway: Can’t Sleep? This (Yawn) Might Work 2013-09-04T16:05:15Z Each time one of them hit the ball, a miniature radio transmitter inside the racket broadcast a loud “bong” and sent a signal extinguishing one of the hall’s 48 overhead lights. The Big Bang of Art and Tech in New York 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z “I always bring tennis rackets on the plane, just in case. I travel with eight rackets, so I grab two and check the rest.” Madison Keys, on Rackets and Mascara 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Near the end of their set, the foursome played tennis onstage - using a racket at times and a guitar and banjo at others. Mumford & Sons perform at Forest Hills reopening 2013-08-29T14:13:45Z Bemused reporters passed by wondering what the racket was, but by the end even Polly Toynbee was waving her trigger fingers in the air. Sleeve Notes: Jammer and Wiley get the Guardian party started 2010-07-09T14:48:00Z So Trash Talk's fierce racket is just a dirty mirror directed at their environment? Trash Talk fly the black flag for Californian DIY punk 2012-10-12T14:00:00Z A few years ago, Gretchen Rubin, the best-selling self-help author, pivoted from the happiness racket into the habit business with her seventh book, “Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives.” Whatever Happened to Just Being Type A? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z It almost feels too on-the-nose that his racket takes place in the ultimate captive market – medicine. Why The Third Man is an essential primer for no-deal Brexit 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Bloodsports is the kind of punky indie racket we imagine they play on Xfm all day and night, and we don't know what fate would be worse, 24/7 Xfm or 24/7 X Factor. New band of the day - Drenge (No 1,438) 2013-01-24T13:53:00Z Ms. Upchurch has decided that while neither actor will need to try an ace or even hold a racket onstage, but both have to look like they could. They Can Act. But Can They Serve? 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z That was his girlfriend at the time, Kristin Hawkins, who is in an even tougher racket: fashion. Finding the Right Note, Pure and Easy 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z But when Richie goes to confront Devon, although he’s full of bile, he doesn’t have a gun in his hand: he ends up wielding a tennis racket. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap: Bats and Tennis Rackets 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z It’s also a racket that works to the detriment of independent filmmakers, as Joe Swanberg emphasized in his keynote speech at South by Southwest last month. Our Dated Model of Theatrical Release Is Hurting Independent Cinema 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z There is a new celebrity racket in town and this one does not involve slapping your name on some cheap tat in a lucrative licensing deal. The Goop rush: why celebrities are racing to build wellness empires 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z The post-grunge foursome worked up a tempestuous racket, channeling fellow Seattleites Sunny Day Real Estate's sweeping sound but adding a metallic flair. Smooth sailing with Rocky Votolato's new sound 2012-06-07T20:48:07Z Suddenly, Altman’s own inner racket of voices and tangles of emotion seem like documentary records of hidden monstrosities. Inherent Vice: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Nostalgia Trip 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Jackie Robinson’s bat and jersey, Althea Gibson’s racket Like Robinson, Althea Gibson broke barriers in sports, becoming the first African-American woman to win a Wimbledon tennis championship. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z He was an only child, his mother was the oldest of 10 and all his uncles were in the rackets. A change in Luck 2012-02-11T00:03:00Z At night, the racket of construction abates as the workers and the families depart, and an ominous silence descends. 'El Velador': Beauty, despair captured in expanding graveyard 2012-07-05T20:51:04Z Squash, a court game in the same vein as other racket sports such as tennis and racquetball, was started in England in the 1830s by children in prep schools. Looking to work out the mind and body? Squash might be the answer. 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Throughout, Lovano danced little steps, seeming to absorb all the racket on stage, chuffing and stuttering, rambling and crooning, careening and doubling back on himself. Joe Lovano warms Jazz Alley with 'Bird Songs' 2011-04-29T16:02:04Z Having left the service, he works as a car salesman and then gets involved in a beef-smuggling racket with a local band of Indians. Canada by Richard Ford - review 2012-05-25T09:00:01Z In 2020, Butler may not be playing as much ping-pong, Chassagne may be a little slower on her accordion – and both may be carrying toddlers – but we trust they'll still be making their heartfelt racket. Arcade Fire to split up (er, in 2020) 2010-09-17T09:19:00Z Before the movies had even been thought of, that genius of the entertainment racket, PT Barnum, coined an adage that cinema's finest have yet to grasp: "Always leave them wanting more." Is The Hobbit simply too long? 2012-12-12T16:15:00Z Dragging his salivating tongue around, a smile twitching beneath his mustache, Dino soon insinuates himself into Giovanni’s world, starting on the tennis court where Dino mistakes his usefulness with a racket for a burgeoning friendship. ‘Human Capital,’ Directed by Paolo Virzì 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z As if on cue, the bucket band’s disparate racket gradually fell into sync until — no way — “The Girl From Ipanema” emerged. Panama City Rising 2013-05-03T17:49:49Z In spring 1996, it burst out of our radio and my brother exclaimed: "What the hell is this racket?" then switched over to 5 Live. Spice Girls: What I really really really want 2012-06-28T12:07:34Z She talks, too, about autograph hunters, commenting that it is a racket. Anne-Marie Duff: 'I wondered if I should lie about my background' 2013-05-19T05:00:03Z The younger staffers were barely making rent and everyone picked over the bounty of free stuff sent to us: watches, golf equipment, tennis rackets, cuff links. My life inside the luxury real estate bubble 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z How very current of them, this Sam Smith racket has only been in the charts for two weeks. Strictly Come Dancing 2015: week three – as it happened 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z At that he picked up a heavy stick and went at it, creating a racket as loud as the beaver's. Animal passions: David Sedaris's modern fables 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z The band played “Captive of the Sun,” a lovely, impressionistic song, and Bun sauntered onstage during the bridge and rapped a verse that echoed Brown’s lyrics about the racket and din of the city. Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z If the lyrics tend slightly towards angst-by-numbers, never mind: Dinosaur Pile-Up are a young band, and the joy in their racket rather undercuts the protestations of misery. Dinosaur Pile-Up: Growing Pains 2010-09-30T22:20:00Z That is, until you are smacked by the tennis racket of reality, and remember they both have more money than God and occupy the same rarefied plane as the Clintons. Perspective | Is this feminism? What to make of the new shows from Hillary and Meghan. 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Antennis: Contestants find it’s really hard to hit a ball with a racket strapped to your head. Style Invitational Week 1448: Hear, hear, it’s Limerixicon XVIII 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z You can see him with a tennis racket. Why the Velvet Underground could only have come from New York 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Then the rest of an eight-piece band, including a horn section, joined them to make, Mr. Beam promised, “a racket.” Music Review: Bells and Whistles Turn Up the Volume 2011-01-30T22:55:08Z It’s hardly surprising that an industry that often functions as a protection racket for white male mediocrity should specialize in spectacles of white male self-pity. Hollywood on the Brink 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Teenage angst has been a lucrative movie racket for years, but what happens when the kids are pretty much all right? Review: ‘Paper Towns’ Tries to Fold Significance Into the Everyday 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z But she couldn’t let go of the racket for long. What’s on TV Monday: Sports Documentaries and ‘Wùlu’ 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z By day, they defeated planning officers to push through building schemes or run rent rackets; by night they defied moralising prudes in the cause of libertinism. An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines – review 2013-01-04T10:00:01Z At night the racket of construction abates as the workers and the families depart, and an ominous silence descends. Movie Review: ‘El Velador’ (‘The Night Watchman’), Mexico’s Drug War Cemetery 2012-06-13T21:43:01Z Hagfish's attempts to take control of the drugs racket is the spark for gang warfare, allowing another viscerally rendered cast of psychos to come clawing out of Manchester's belly. Chamber Music by Tom Benn – review 2013-01-14T15:59:15Z I think I’ve done a good job getting him interested in music, talking about music, playing instruments around the house, making a racket. Rock music’s purpose: Make us dance 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z Cannes is in the glamour racket and keeping up beautiful appearances is one way it remains the pre-eminent event. Critic?s Notebook: Paris (and Cannes) in the Spring, Through Woody Allen?s Eyes 2011-05-12T21:13:58Z Journalists at the 21st Century Business Herald, a major Chinese business news website, were recently detained in connection with running a racket in exchange for good press. Chinese TV censor's conviction points to 'common' bribery problem 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Shorto awkwardly dances around his grandfather’s story, giving us some fascinating history on the numbers racket, the Johnstown flood, Prohibition, his Sicilian roots and the songs of Frank Sinatra. Russell Shorto’s Grandpa Was a ‘Smalltime’ Mobster 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z And fourth—and perhaps most important—it entailed a deliciously ungodly racket. The Best Jazz Reissues of 2014 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, it has taken me a number of stays here to acclimatise to the bloody racket caused by peaceful countryside. I'm being patronised. It's wonderful 2010-09-16T11:50:00Z The pooch making all that racket is Pip, Close’s pet havanese. Glenn Close: ‘You don’t lose your sexuality as you get older’ 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z There is a manuscript to work on, but what’s all that racket? ‘Masters of Sex’ Returns for Season 3, Children in Tow 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z That incessant racket you hear all the time now about Trump, Clinton and what all? John McLaughlin: The man who pumped up the volume on political talk shows 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z New York’s foremost narcissist — whose Trump Tower, encased in fool’s gold and bogus bronze, was the very definition of ersatz — hankered for what he regarded as the real estate racket’s crown jewel of social status. Theater of Dreams: A Tale of Boom and Bust at the Plaza Hotel 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z By failing to do this, she invited a nuisance that the fortune-telling racket has a mechanism for avoiding—the attention of the police. Crooked Psychics and Cooling the Mark Out 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z So when, asymmetrical wooden racket in hand, I took to the Royal Tennis Court at Hampton Court Palace in Surrey, England, for a “real tennis” lesson, I was unprepared for the humbling that was forthcoming. ‘Real Tennis’ May Be Obscure, but It Has Fans in Britain 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Then, like a Wimbledon winner flinging her racket into the crowd, she threw them to the audience. Daria Klimentova shines at English National Ballet in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z It flashes through studio portraits of black business people, teachers and pastors, some carrying parasols or tennis rackets. Antiques: Pottery by David Drake, a Slave Craftsman in Edgefield, S.C. 2012-08-30T21:17:32Z Toback is just a raconteur without a racket. So they hear a dozen variations on the word No. Many negotiations begin with “No.” Seduced and Abandoned: The Dirty, Funny Business of Movies 2013-05-21T01:10:47Z He saw my racket, and we just connected.” Tennis and Fashion: It’s a Love Match 2012-08-08T20:46:42Z There isn’t a strong story tethering Dave, one of those heists or rackets of generic cop stories, but instead a succession of crises, most with no obvious solution. | 'Rampart': ?Rampart,? Starring Woody Harrelson - Review 2011-11-23T00:13:07Z Playing squash well requires strong racket control, good timing and excellent hand-eye coordination. Looking to work out the mind and body? Squash might be the answer. 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z As the gig progresses, the quartet play their instruments increasingly as if they're taming wild animals, their hair becomes more unruly, their screaming racket more thrillingly demented. The Strypes – review 2013-02-12T17:38:50Z He's humble, understands why some people might not like his cochlea-shattering racket and just wants to make his fans happy. EDM: four rubbish things (and one good one) about its rise in 2012 2012-12-29T00:07:04Z Quit makin’ all that racket, Denver International Airport. Denver International Airport fined $33.5M for noise violations 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z It results in a thrilling racket, like Tangerine Dream writing an intro theme for an eastern European cage fighter. Walls, A*M*E, All Dom Wrong: this week's new tracks 2013-07-12T12:00:00Z “There are days when I throw the racket on the court, where I scream or shout or I get in a fight with my wife,” he said. Novak Djokovic Is No. 1, Like It or Not 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Other options to exterminate flies in your home include window sticky traps, a zapper racket, or even a pet-safe aerosol spray. The many, many ways to get rid of pesky flies 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z To me, their cyborg fusion of drum'n'bass and heavy metal is the worst of both worlds: a boring racket. Pendulum are the sound of youth ? just not mine 2010-06-03T10:41:00Z Bandminton: Replace rackets with instruments: Amateur level: banjo; pro level: clarinet. Style Invitational Week 1448: Hear, hear, it’s Limerixicon XVIII 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Even if most in the audience isn’t ready for a history lesson, the septet’s boisterous racket has fans dancing jigs on Butler Field. Lollapalooza Day 3: Rain, more rain, and a Foo Fighters finale 2011-08-08T05:32:00Z But every tourist seemed to be up there with him, and down below, on both sides, new office and apartment towers were going up, with machines and construction crews making an awful racket. In Search of Silence 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z But again, it was the name that really made a racket in my adolescent mind. My 10 favourite Beastie Boys tracks 2013-05-04T09:00:00Z He’s so vigorous with the tennis racket that he catches Billy in the forehead and makes him bleed. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap: Bats and Tennis Rackets 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z This picture of the Kray twins, whose gang ran a protection racket in London in the 60s, is classic Bailey: pure white background, no arms or hands, strong shape and form. The 10 best photographic portraits 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z It's a lucrative racket even when none of the contestants are in it "for the right reasons," but none of it is particularly original. On "Sexy Beasts," love isn't quite blind – but it's an entertainingly shallow heavy petting zoo 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Yes, I felt a rush when the free-form jazz horns of The National Anthem reached their unified crescendo, but it was a rush of relief that the Mingus-in-a-tumble-dryer racket was finally over. Radiohead's Kid A: still not much cop 2010-10-11T11:59:00Z Ulrich Boser, author of "The Gardner Heist" and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, said he's convinced the paintings were taken by burglars involved in Boston's organized crime rackets in the 1980s. Boston art heist rattles investigators 20 years on 2010-03-16T04:46:00Z The antiques business prospers by turning heritage and culture into a racket. I can't bury my hatred for Antiques Roadshow any longer 2010-10-11T13:59:00Z “Even though they may complain about the newer version of their racket, they just play with it.” Tennis, Everyone? 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z What about the tennis pro, Robert, who consummates his affair with a married older woman against the racket restringing machine? Murder in a Moneyed Fire Island Enclave 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z But what are the real-world applications of smacking Jello with a tennis racket, you ask? Watch Tennis Rackets Slice Through Jello In Slow-Motion 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z It’s a lot harder for you to ignore the racket, and your parents still criticise you for yelling to be heard. 'Tidy your room!': a teenagers' guide to arguing with your parents 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z At first, I thought that I’d soon be seeing an overzealous NBC New York camera crew rush up to expose the vender’s racket. A Dog Day Afternoon 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z All this noise, all this racket, fighting to fill the air. In defence of mumbling: there's a poetry in our quietness 2013-07-16T13:54:51Z Despite that name, Of Monsters and Men aren't metal, though after experiencing their lusty racket, you perhaps wouldn't be surprised if a dragon or two turned up. Of Monsters and Men – review 2012-07-11T11:01:12Z The trap in the ceiling went off several times during the night, like a pistol fired in an empty chapel, the unholy racket magnified by the oddly magnificent acoustics. How Do You Know When It’s Time to Break Up? 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z But their gift registries seem like a racket to me. Social Q?s: Poor Reception for the Big Game 2011-06-30T22:19:17Z It's just that today's criminals have all new rackets and gadgets that he has to face, making it pretty dangerous. New creative team lays out vision for Dick Tracy comic strip 2011-03-13T15:24:00Z For a trio, they make a hell of a racket, and there's something almost purifying about the newfound volume and intensity of Conscience Killer and the ZZ Top-esque Berlin. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – review 2013-03-26T18:27:54Z First, Zigman introduces new upstairs neighbors who generate a mysterious racket that turns out to be a yoga studio; their presence threatens to drive an even bigger wedge between Joyce and Lydia. How Does a Family Change After Losing a Child? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Markasyan tossed the metal jumble into an empty box, creating a loud racket that sounded like the Tin Man falling out of bed. The weird afterlife of banned TSA items 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The Survivors run a protection racket that surely is not just preying on Hilltop. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6 Finale: Negan Makes His Entrance 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z I have to say now, being more aware of my senses, I notice more beauty, but I also notice more racket and stink, but I like that. Sad after losing your sense of smell to COVID? Turns out there's a link between sense and happiness 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z It’s not a bad racket, and since I’m intimately acquainted, on a professional basis, with the cinematic oeuvre of Adam Sandler, I qualify as something of an expert. ‘Why Grow Up?’ by Susan Neiman 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z In the picture, Gibson looks relaxed, smiling over her shoulder, a racket in her lap and three tennis balls in her hand. Exhibitions celebrate the opening of the Smithsonian’s African American Museum 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Ax beat the chemistry racket long ago, apparently loved everywhere he goes. Miguel Harth Bedoya and L.A. Phil have special chemistry 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Amid the haphazard bank robberies and other nefarious rackets perpetrated by a marauding teenage gang, tenderness springs. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren said she turned down Fox’s offer of a town hall, saying she did not want to support a network she called “a hate-for-profit racket” in a tweet. CNN loves hosting Democratic candidates in town halls. Viewers aren’t returning the affection. 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z The lesser lords of pickleball also feud with tennis players over dual-use courts and plans for expansion in public parks, with reports of "turf wars" and "a tug-of-war" between the two racket sports. Pickleball’s uphill climb to mainstream success 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z Her alleged crimes were smashing a racket and then calling the umpire a “thief” after he deducted a point for the racket infraction. Perspective | The ‘new’ Miss America and the trap of ladylike expectations 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z One took a segment where Drake was swatting his arm and put a tennis racket in his hand, making him thwack away balls fired at him. Drake: Rapper, Actor, Meme 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Fielding bids from several different places in the room and on the phones, Mr. Pylkkanen joked: “It’s like a tennis game with five rackets.” Pulled From Rockefeller Walls, Picasso, Matisse and Monet Fetch Big Prices 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Maybe Courtney stores her soul in her parents’ garage next to unstrung tennis rackets and damp copies of Sweet Valley High. The Bachelor Watch: Meet the Parents 2012-02-21T12:58:51Z At one point, as national magazines began to expose the worst of the fraudulent real estate rackets, the industry fought back with an event called “The Truth About Florida,” which was exactly the opposite. Built on Sand: The Get-Rich-Quick Scams of 1920s Florida 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Of course, this is only a beginning, and the banking and oil companies, the 1 percent, and the prison and education rackets are more than capable of pushing back. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z The third-floor bedroom of Theodore Jr. looks like a typical teenage boy’s room, with a tennis racket, lacrosse sticks and a Harvard pennant. Theodore Roosevelt’s Long Island estate speaks volumes — literally — about his character 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Cornet's racket felt the full brunt of her anger as she tossed it on to the turf, but that appeared to have the desired effect in firing up the 25th seed. 'Princess' Eugenie aiming for Wimbledon coronation 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z The Secret Service was eventually called in to break up the racket by the late 1930s. Raccoons, rabbits and Sean Spicer: The camp and contradictions of the White House Easter Egg Roll 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z For 15 minutes every hour a runner uses the treadmill, which activates the tank’s treads, creating an unholy racket that evokes a huge flock of metal starlings. Art Review: Artists Decorate Palazzos, and Vice Versa 2011-06-08T22:24:39Z Or when a Mad Hatter’s garden party is held, complete with girls dressed as shuttlecocks and badminton rackets and daisy chains, as it was at Thom Browne. Donna Karan, Maria Cornejo, Rodarte, Thom Browne, Vera Wang And More Show at Fashion Week 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z It's been done before, of course, but there's some substance behind their woozy racket. Coachella festival 2013 day three: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nick Cave, Grimes – review 2013-04-15T09:49:58Z “We’re still dealing with a little bit of a stigma,” he said, noting newcomers balk at putting ”tennis rackets” on their feet and “waddling around like a duck.” Simple, Affordable and Socially Distanced, Snowshoeing Gets Hot 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z A sextet, then, or a double trio, but not exactly: the conglomerated racket didn’t fit any neat category, which seemed to be largely the point. Music Review: Three Bands Turn Up at a Show for Two 2011-06-27T22:34:39Z The fun begins when Horrid Henry tries to earn some money by selling dad’'s old tennis racket and mum'’s expensive perfume. Horrid Henry gets rich quick by Francesca Simon - review 2013-01-01T09:00:00Z I have never heard an unamplified organ make such a racket or sound so unhinged. A protean John Zorn musical marathon at LACMA and UCLA 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z A great racket rises, like a symphony of a thousand hedge trimmers, from the South Lawn of the White House. Trump’s favorite venue for making news — or avoiding it — is right in front of the presidential chopper 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Five nights before Christmas, Mary Hayden Stehle is so deep into her Kindle jigsaw puzzle game, she barely registers the racket of the train as it hurtles southward from Washington. Ashland’s gift to train travelers: a holiday light spectacular along the tracks 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z But Morland keeps her rhetorical register so high that her narrative just about holds together as she rackets round the world in search of bravehearts. The Society of Timid Souls by Polly Morland – review 2013-07-12T09:00:01Z Loss of use is a mafia-style protection racket that seems to be more important to car rental companies than renting cars. Do You Really Need Rental Car Insurance? 8 Things to Know 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z For one thing, there was the terrifying racket that leapt out of the speakers when you played his forthcoming debut album Boy In Da Corner. Dizzee Rascal: 'The music just got bigger and better' 2012-06-21T22:00:01Z Law enforcement authorities considered Torres the dominant figure in the Los Angeles County jail rackets, which he oversaw from his prison cell using contraband cellphones. Federal prosecutors charge MS-13 drug suspects linked to Mexican Mafia leader 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z After Djokovic gave up an early break in the third, he broke two rackets with his foot before sitting down for the changeover. Djokovic secures year-end top ranking for a record-extending 8th time by beating Rune at ATP Finals 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z But even a small group of politicians determined to make a racket can do so. Suella Braverman row: Who's scared of Rishi Sunak? 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z As for me, I’m not proud that this guilt-by-association racket started with me. Business bigfoots the Seattle election, but quietly this time 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Originally set up as self-defense forces for poor neighborhoods blighted by drug gangs, they have now metastasized into criminal outfits operating in multiple different rackets. Rio gangsters torch at least 35 buses after Brazil crime boss killed 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z The racket of the machine gave the meeting a mundane, bureaucratic feel in an unadorned space usually set aside for state lawmakers to host constituents. Inside the meeting of Republican electors who sought to thwart Biden’s election win in Georgia 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z In his words and calculations, in his retribution racket, Trump's transactional antisemitism is writ large. Experts warn of "America's rising tide of antisemitsm" 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z The Polish player threw his racket down onto the court and appeared visibly angry at the missed opportunity. Team World beats Team Europe to claim back-to-back Laver Cup titles 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z They made a fair old racket along the way and good on them. Scotland dominate to get job done amid Tonga tempest 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z |
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