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Durbin believes his "thinking-man's racket" will become more popular once people are aware of its superiority over conventional rackets. So far, it hasn't produced a profit, even though "thinking men" have been forking over $210 for Durbin's graphic model in the eight months it's been on the market...
Princeton President William Bowan became the first college administrator to make the transition to the Durbin, while Harvard's President Bok has not acknowledged the Princeton professor's achievement. Bok succumbed to advanced tennis technology when he switched to the Prince Graphic, the first of the large-headed, large-sweetspot rackets, which has already been adopted by many top pros and whose retail cost is only slightly less prohibitive than the Durbin...
...operate than any other desktop computer. The operator simply takes the mouse in hand, and a little black arrow springs to life on the screen. That arrow can then be directed toward the postage stamp-size pictures lining the bottom of the screen. These are Lisa's "icons," graphic symbols representing such everyday objects as a trash can, a clipboard, file folders, a calculator, a battery-operated clock. By pointing the arrow at an icon and pressing the button on the mouse, the user triggers an action. He might use the trash can to discard the first draft...
...poetry in 19 years) leads the way. Perhaps the best-known serious woman novelist in the nation, she made the bestseller list last year with A Bloodsmoor Romance, a lengthy parody of 19th century genteel genre writing. Sample: "Having no capability, and, indeed, no desire, so far as graphic descriptions of 'love embraces' are concerned, I shall make no attempt to sketch for the repelled reader precisely how The Beast (sexual desire) emerged to make a loathsome mockery of the love declarations, kisses, caresses, and other amorous indulgences which transpired between Malvinia and Mr. Twain, in Malvinia...
...stove-up old cowboy at the unemployment of fice, the interstate that plunges through the homesteads . . ." Threatened by land development and automated meat production, folks less durable than cowpunchers would have ridden into the sunset long ago. Yet they hang on, as evidenced by Vanishing Breed (New York Graphic Society; 144 pages; $29.95). More than 100 evocative photographs catch ranch hands and horses in landscapes where the Old West and the new one jostle for position: an AM-FM portable rests on a chuck wagon; pickup trucks wait outside wilderness taverns; mud-and blood-spattered rodeo riders hanker after Stetsoned...