Word: callaway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BINK! WHEN THE CALLAWAY GOLF CO.'S ULTRA-ENGINEERED Big Bertha driver connects with a common golf ball, the space-age sound is no auditory accident. Forget thwack or clink -- think of a high-performance computer firing up. The low- tech ball, meanwhile, has landed 20 to 30 yds. farther down the fairway than you expected. "I've played for 61 years," says 12-handicapper Thomas Dight, 76, a retired Long Island, New York, school superintendent who prowls the links all summer long in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. "I've never seen anything like...
...almost universal acceptance. Bill Clinton and George Bush use it, as do many golf-tour professionals -- even those without endorsement contracts. Bertha's manufacturer, meanwhile, has doubled sales of all its products four years running, topping $132 million last year, with profits tripling to $19.3 million. FORTUNE now rates Callaway as the 14th fastest-growing company...
...must have been sometime between 1943, when Irving Penn became a photographer at Vogue, and 1983, when Annie Leibovitz moved her camera from Rolling Stone to Vanity Fair. That would explain why the human race that appears in Penn's new book, a career summation called Passage (Knopf-Callaway; $100), looks so different from the one that we see in Photographs Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990 (HarperCollins...
...charts, allowing for a range of 30 lbs. or more at each height and up to a 16-lb. gain from age 35 on. Why the extra allowance in middle age? "Some studies have shown that in older years, heavier people have better life expectancies," says Dr. C. Wayne Callaway, a George Washington University professor of medicine who was a consultant on the tables...
Falk's daunting task is made worse by the ineptitude of Liz Callaway, a fine singer but no actress, as the American woman Chris marries after he believes Kim is lost to him forever. At a critics' preview last week, several people laughed out loud at her just when tension should have been mounting. The other problem is Thuy, Kim's cousin and her betrothed from her village days. In London he was a scary communist zealot. Now Barry K. Bernal makes him an expedient turncoat whose only zeal is for Kim -- a dull, soap-opera diminution...