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  • ...''Infinite Jest'', the novel won't ... ARRRRRRGH!" [[Infinite Jest - TIME Magazine|''Read the review »'']] ...ed, disfigured star and on the filmmaker's son -- none other than the teen tennis whiz Hal Incandenza." [[Infinite Jest - Newsweek Review, February 12, 1996
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    '''''Decade Magazine'''''<br /> 17; 9-year-old soft-skulled, blind tennis kid from "Nowheresburg, Iowa" who will be enrolling at ETA "next term"; "li
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    287; tennis tournament in Indianapolis IN '''''North American Junior Tennis'''''<br />
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  • ...arodic future version of North America. The novel touches on the topics of tennis; substance addiction and recovery programs; depression; child abuse; family ''Time'' magazine included the novel in its ''TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923
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  • ...45.html?mod=yahoo_buzz}}</ref> which ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine) Time]'' included in its All-Time 100 Greatest Novels list (covering the pe ...http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/magazine/14wwln-Wallace-t.html?_r=2&ref=magazine}}</ref>) was awarded the Gail Kennedy Memorial Prize<ref>[https://cms.amher
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  • Hal's Uncle, Charles Tavis, is head of the Enfield Tennis Academy. like a tennis court, presumably <br />
    22 KB (3,375 words) - 20:57, 27 October 2018
  • A German news-weekly magazine, known for investigative journalism; literally, ''The Mirror''. Arabic for "people". Referring to a fictional Arabic version of "People Magazine"
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  • '''''TIME Magazine'''''<br /> ...raduate at Amherst, he specialized in mathematical logic and played on the tennis team until, as he puts it, "I wanted to be in the library all the time, and
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  • a synonym for a drop shot, which in tennis is a light tap just over the net one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse fami
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  • John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. (born 1959), was a professional tennis player from 1974 to 1992, with seven Grand Slam wins. Esconja appears to be in tennis, a passing shot is a shot which travels out of the opponents reach, typical
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  • spin given to a ball in tennis causing it to rotate forward people who (in this case) play tennis merely for amusement
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  • This is likely a term that DFW coined, although Spin magazine used it in a blurb in 1996. I suspect that they were inspired by DFW. ?? ...is teenage years in ''Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley'', he mentions his tennis partner named Gil Antitoi.
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  • 259; tennis academy in Mexico ..." 64; annular hyperfloration cycles, 65; vicious circle of drug-taking and tennis, 67; "circle of arms" 69; "annularly overfertilized forests" 93; "firelight
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