Word: becker
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...Said, She Said After a child-support suit was settled, Russian model Angela Ermakova broke her silence last week to describe her baby-producing broom-closet tryst with tennis stud Boris Becker...
...girl is named Nepal's virgin goddess?gets a third eye, a chariot and is revered by thousands. What, no decoder ring? Losers ROWAN ATKINSON Mr. Bean creator crashes his Aston Martin into a wall. Sits with a disconsolate expression wondering when Harrison Ford will show up BORIS BECKER Tennis maestro must pay child support after siring a child in a Japanese restaurant broom-closet with a model. What was in that sashimi? VLAD DRACUL PRINCE KRETZULESCO Transylvanian royal loses suit against firm selling Dracula wine. His case against Kretzulesco Fish Fingers was also dismissed...
...social thinker Ernst Becker said, a protest without a program is mere sentimentality. Some of the demonstrators are just migrating loons, for whom a WTO meeting offers the political equivalent of the mosh pit. Others are violently sentimental idealists whose program is to provoke Authority into retaliation, so that Authority may be discredited and, ultimately - they think, they project, they fantasize - brought down...
...That Sunday afternoon: you're in the Wimbledon final, it's the third set, and you're about to win," Becker says. "Those 20 minutes and then that night and the next couple weeks are just heaven. This is something I miss. Because even with a great business deal, it's not the same sensation. Tennis is an art form. I feel as if I'm performing on a stage in front of millions of people, and I was sometimes able to fascinate them for two weeks. This culminates with a Sunday final, match point, and then all the celebrations...
...does not laugh. Tennis is sex and sex is tennis; never mind that the last time he mixed the two, he ended up in a broom closet. Without one, life is dull for him. Without both, life is death. Becker would like to fall in love again. For now, though, he's thinking about the green grass of England, and giving the world one more big bang...