![]() Searching for answers to his madness, the documentary gives a compelling insight into McEnroe's perfectionism, uncompromising childhood, demanding father, brilliant opponents Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors, and the vigour with which the press hounded him. Watch the Australian Open live and free on the Nine Network: Channel 9, 9Gem and 9NOW. "I ended up saying the arsehole thing, which was really stupid." "A lot of the times when I was in the midst of some meltdown it felt like I was thinking a funny thing at first," McEnroe, now 63, says in the documentary. He proceeded to dub the umpire "an incompetent fool" and stood by his comments when pressed after the match. ![]() ![]() McEnroe also labelled umpires "the absolute pits of the world", prompting the man in the chair to award a point against him. ![]() John McEnroe reflects on his explosive nature as a player with regret in a documentary about the American legend. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Plus, Chang's costume for Miles features a half-mask, showing off the young hero's Afro-Latino identity, an integral part of Morales' character, history, and heroism. Sporting some stunning high-lace sneakers, a blazer with the perfect Spider detailing and fabric, and a tailcoat, the bow tie-ed look is one of Miles's best ever. While fans had mixed reactions to the new look, it was undeniably a bold costume, and stuck with Miles through the end of Saladin Ahmed's run on the series in issue #42.īernard Chang's design for Miles' Hellfire Gala costume is honestly impeccable, masterfully giving Morales a high-fashion streetwear costume design while making it incredibly clear that this is still a Spider-Man. ![]() Spider-Man's new look ditched his classic black and red costume in favor of a black and neon pink color scheme, with Miles sporting a sweatshirt and custom sneakers. As a celebration of Miles' 10th anniversary as a Marvel hero, the visual artist and comics illustrator Chase Conley gave Morales a new heroic costume, inspired by current trends in streetwear fashion, which first debuted in Miles Morales: Spider-Man #30 from writer Saladin Ahmed and artist Carmen Carnero. ![]() ![]() You play as D'Kor, rider of a bronze dragon. The basic societal structure of Pern provides the background for Dragonriders but not the substance. ![]() You'll spend the majority of your time talking to the citizens and riders of Pern. And as in many other disappointing adventure games, you are supposed to be a great hero, but you do little more than perform menial tasks. It takes the primary elements of the Pern novels and uses them to fashion a run-of-the-mill adventure game that offers very little actual adventure and too many frustrating mechanical issues. But Ubi Soft's Dragonriders: Chronicles of Pern is not a good game. The series spans a dozen books featuring warriors who ride dragons and fight against a terrifying parasite that falls from the sky. Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels would seem to be the perfect inspiration for a good game. ![]() ![]() What could be more precise and truthful depiction of life on earth than this timeless, eloquent musing of the irreplaceable Carl Sagan? It was February 14, 1990, when the Voyager 1 spacecraft took the iconic photograph of the Pale Blue Dot. An excerpt from Carl Sagan’s “A Pale Blue Dot” Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.” There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. In our obscurity, in all its vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. ![]() Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. ![]() Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. ![]() Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. “The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even the surly, old, foul-mouthed Henry that you can’t help but love, despite his old timey views of the world and what’s acceptable. ![]() He’s doing it though, with the help of two awesome brothers and a couple of ol’ ranch hands that are more like family…. He’s broody and reserved, and he’s had a lot of responsibility on his shoulders since losing both parents and having to take care of so much at barely adult age. Nate is the oldest of the brother’s that run Crooked Tree Ranch. He knows things have to change and but when the new guy turns up, with a troubled family in tow – he just isn’t prepared for how much. His brothers convince him that he needs to get an expert in to help the business grow. With his sister, Ashley, niece, Kirsten and nephew, Josh, in tow, he moves lock stock and barrel from New York to Montana to start a new life on Crooked Tree Ranch.įoreman and part owner of the ranch, ex rodeo star Nathaniel ‘Nate’ Todd has been running the dude ranch, for five years ever since his mentor Marcus Allen became ill. ![]() On the spur of the moment, with his life collapsing around him, Jay Sullivan answers an ad for a business manager with an expertise in marketing, on a dude ranch in Montana. ![]() ![]() ![]() “You put your hand out and I thought you were going right,” comes the response. Not only that, but the close pass was also accompanied by an obligatory blast of the horn and a shout of ‘What’s your problem?’ from the black cab driver.Īs with almost all MGIF passes, of course, the manoeuvre comes to no avail, as Vine soon draws level with the cabbie for a rather testy debrief. The remark "You can do what you like, you know that" (meaning *he* can) suggests he has simply invented his own Highway Code. But his entitlement and lying were just off the scale. ![]() ![]() If this black-cab driver had just said "Sorry, that was a bad overtake," I wouldn't have minded. Vine’s latest ‘controversial’ clip, posted yesterday morning, shows a Kensington taxi driver go full MGIF (Must Get in Front) by close passing the broadcaster, despite the cyclist’s hand signal to indicate that he was staying in the outside lane. Jeremy Vine’s live blog season ticket hasn’t seen much action in recent months (apart from the odd impatient Bentley driver), but it’s safe to say that over on Twitter – it’s still around, hooray! – the two-wheeled presenter is continuing his successful streak of upsetting angry, entitled motorists with his daily commute videos. ![]() ![]() And they're just two of the folks you'll meet in Castor County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin' Rebs and more bastards than you've ever seen ``What does old Earl Tubb do when he returns home to Craw County, Ala., only to find the place a veritable criminal fiefdom run by Euless Boss, the local high school football coach? Why, pick up the stick helpfully cleaved by lightning from a tree growing out of his daddy's grave and start meting out justice just like his father, the old sheriff, did. Euless Boss is a high school football coach with no more room in his office for trophies and no more room underneath the bleachers for burying bodies. Earl Tubb is an angry old man with a very big stick. ![]() ![]() The situations are hilarious by themselves, but they read like a series of one-shot extra chapters, often with some characters *cough*Ishigami*cough* going out of character (seriously, the guy who creepily told Chika he remembers her perfume smell as any sort of authority on girl psychology is a reach) and the ‘shojo-manga-vision’ chapter being overlooked as a potential arc. ![]() The only common thread connecting the story is the Ino, and the last chapter, as she tries to make sense of what she is seeing in the student council – twice finding Miyuki and Kaguya in compromising positions, once finding Chika being held while they are taping her mouth, and other random and bizarre occurrences from the previous volume. Lovesick: figure of speech or actual ailment?Īs the blurb suggests, the chapters in this volume are a bit all over the place. ![]() Somebody actually, finally asks somebody out! And Kaguya and Miyuki accidentally get locked inside a room together… Then, a shojo manga makes everyone romance crazy. ![]() Will Miyuki’s hormones keep him loyal to Kaguya or lead him astray? Meanwhile, Miko is interpreting everything she observes in the student council as risqué. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Return of the Duke is the last in the Dukedom trilogy and I am so pleased with this book. But giving into temptation comes at a cost, and they must decide if love is worth the risk of losing their one chance for redemption. Soon, they’re unable to deny their growing desire for each other. She doesn’t trust Marcus but can’t deny the handsome devil makes her wonder if she does indeed possess a heart, one he could very easily steal.Īs their hunt for the truth leads them into danger, Marcus finds Esme isn’t cold and calculating as he’d assumed but fire and brimstone, with courage and determination to match his own. Harboring secrets, Esme Lancaster has her own reasons for wanting to discover who’s behind the conspiracy that’s still afoot. ![]() His search forces him to turn to a woman he despises for her unforgiveable betrayal–a woman known as the heartless harlot. Vowing to return honor to his family, he seeks to expose the others involved in the treasonous plot and bring them to justice. When his father, the Duke of Wolfford, is hanged for an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria, Marcus Stanwick is stripped of everything. In the thrilling third book in New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath’s Once Upon a Dukedom series, the dashing son of a disgraced duke teams up with a sultry beauty to thwart an assassination plot against Queen Victoria. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Based on numerous printed primary and secondary sources, it deserves a large reading audience."" -Don Higginbotham, Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.įrom the Back Cover A brilliant account of the proud and ferocious American fighters who stood up to the British forces in savage battles crucial in deciding both the fate of the Carolina colonies and the outcome of the war. ""John Buchanan offers us a lively, accurate account of a critical period in the War of Independence in the South. ""Buchanan makes the subject come alive like few others I have seen."" -Dennis Conrad, Editor, The Nathanael Greene Papers. ""A tense, exciting historical account of a little known chapter of the Revolution, displaying history writing at its best.""-Kirkus Reviews ""His compelling narrative brings readers closer than ever before to the reality of Revolutionary warfare in the Carolinas.""-Raleigh News & Observer. Book Synopsis A brilliant account of the proud and ferocious American fighters who stood up to the British forces in savage battles crucial in deciding both the fate of the Carolina colonies and the outcome of the war. ![]() |