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...golfers to set tee-shot trajectory and direction to their liking at the start of a round, without breaking the rules. TaylorMade is betting that the Quad's $600 price won't scare off serious swingers, who seem to have an insatiable appetite for whizbang clubs like the Big Bertha, the last one to revolutionize golf. The Quad debuts June 15, but is already hot on the PGA Tour. Says TaylorMade's Sean Toulon: "We've empowered golfers to change their equipment to fit their swing and improve performance--a significant development." At least until the next high-tech gizmo...
...crop up once you get to the golf course." These include matters of etiquette--How many practice swings can I take?--that can intimidate new players. Alexander says the course owners, not the golf pros, must run the reforms. Ron Drapeau, CEO of Callaway Golf, the $814 million Big Bertha manufacturer that will imprint playgolfamerica.com on its advertising, says any strategy is better than none at all: "It can't be put on one group's shoulders. Look, we're going down some blind alleys, and we're going to make mistakes. But I'm excited, because for the first...
When Patti LaBelle first learned that she had Type 2 diabetes 10 years ago, the news hit her, she says, like "a death sentence." The soul singer, 59, had reason to be concerned. Her aunt and grandmother died of diabetes, and her mother Bertha lost her legs to it before she died at 65. But survival in the face of long odds is a recurring theme in LaBelle's Grammy-winning career, so her thoughts soon turned from whether she was going to die to how she was going to live--and, more particularly, what she was going...
...respected amateur scientist, driven to insanity by his wife Laura (Catherine B. Gowl ’02) as she schemes to obtain control over their daughter Bertha’s education. Laura plant seeds of suspicion in the Captain’s mind about the true paternity of Bertha and about his very ability to reason. This self-doubt festers into violence and madness, and Laura’s triumph in controlling both her daughter and husband’s fate...
...within the play. Emily S. Knapp ’03 as the Nurse carries an earthy, calming and maternal presence to the set—the only brand of femininity the captain comes to condone. Sarah L. Thomas ’03 reflects a childish, self-effacing manner as Bertha, which mirrors her own objectification by her parents. One exception, however, is the Doctor’s intentional lack of physical presence, a highly caricatured, goofy character privy to the machinations of women, that becomes a one-dimensional foil to the Captain...