Word: lee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...financial-management company based in Chicago that helped get the tennis circuit going and invests heavily in both sports. Companies are not only sponsoring the senior tournaments, they are also using several of the grizzled icons to hawk their products. Palmer has appeared in Pennzoil and Cooper Tire commercials, Lee Trevino, 59, and Connors for Cadillac. With intimate knowledge of the aches and pains of the aging athlete, Connors has been a natural for Nuprin, and Ray Floyd, 57, for Advil...
...becoming overbuilt. But when officials tried to put the brakes on development, they came up against some hard political realities. The fat revenue stream from condo towers, resorts and convention hotels made it very difficult to elect antigrowth politicians. Hurricanes were acknowledged to be a danger. But, says Charles Lee, senior vice president of the Florida Audubon Society, "instead of restrictions, you got engineering standards. And from that point on, there really wasn't any limit on growth...
...TEEN PEOPLE, enhancing their learning skills and perhaps developing into discerning interpreters of the news. Staff writers Karl Taro Greenfeld, Joel Stein and Romesh Ratnesar and writer-reporters Michele Orecklin and Jodie Morse are current TIME tutors. Stein, Orecklin and Ratnesar have been working with eighth-grader Jovon Lee since last September. It didn't take long to discover they had a voracious reader on their hands, even if his tastes did tend to lean more toward stories about sports and music than national politics--although long before Jesse Ventura's election as Governor of Minnesota, Jovon had become...
...many rewards of reading Chang-rae Lee's new novel, A Gesture Life (Riverhead Books; 288 pages; $23.95), is its reticence, a lost virtue at a time when fictional characters (to say nothing of strangers on airplanes) share intimacies as routinely as weather reports...
...comfort woman and his troublesome daughter. Both are objects of his care and devotion. Both cause him plenty of discomfort. How Hata handles his past and the constant tension between social acceptance and his chronic sense of not belonging finally have little to do with his origins. Chang-rae Lee, whose first novel, 1995's Native Speaker, announced the arrival of a new talent, makes sure of Hata's humanity by giving him an inner life independent of ethnicity and suburban status. But the contrast between Hata's appearance and his reality would surely surprise most of his neighbors, especially...