Word: borges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reflects a larger social trend: the greater acceptance of older people performing well--indeed, excellently--in a variety of pursuits. In golf, and more recently in tennis, players who quickened the pulse of sports fans a few decades ago--Palmer, Nicklaus and Trevino, for example, and Connors, McEnroe and Borg--are back on the courses and courts, and back in the news, striving in spirited competition with their peers...
...conducts tournaments around the world. This year 20 events are scheduled at which $3.6 million in prizes will be handed out to players 35 and older. Now called the Worldwide Senior Tennis Circuit, it includes in its impressive galaxy such former stars as Connors, 47; John McEnroe, 40; Bjorn Borg, 43; Guillermo Vilas, 47; John Lloyd, 45; Yannick Noah, 39; Andres Gomez, 39; Henri Leconte, 36; and Mats Wilander...
...material he took directly from golf. Head's Ti5 and Ti6 models, which weigh about 7 oz. and cost up to $250, were the world's top two selling racquets last year. In Agassi, Head may have the game's top salesman too. "In the past, tennis had Borg, McEnroe and Connors. Today there's only Andre," says Eliasch...
...Borg over McEnroe in epic match; it's his fifth straight Wimbledon...
...DAVID MAMET refuse an all-female troupe the right to perform his plays? The New York City-based QuintEssential Theatre Co. chose a series of pieces from Mamet's Goldberg Streets as its inaugural production. "We picked works we felt were gender nonspecific," says member Natasha Borg. The group got the O.K. from the two publishing houses that shared the rights, Dramatists Play Services and Samuel French. "When applying for the rights, you must list all the cast members," says Borg. "They could see we were all women." But a few weeks before the Jan. 6 performance, the group received...