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...dominating performances in the history of the America's Cup regatta, Team New Zealand's Black Magic I won the fifth straight of five races off the shores of San Diego and took home the world's premier sailing trophy. --By Melissa August, Christine Gorman, Belinda Luscombe, Michael Quinn, Alain Sanders and Sidney Urquhart

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: MAY 7-13 | 5/22/1995 | See Source »

...Boston, and became engaged (briefly) to a girl from South Carolina who had a white Cadillac convertible and called him "honey chile." He retains a strong affection for America and is in fact an American junk-food addict. "When you're in the U.S. with Chirac," says Foreign Minister Alain Juppa, "there's always a problem: as soon as he sees a fast-food place, he has to stop the car, rush up to the counter and order a hamburger." (Chirac does have a more sophisticated side-he speaks Russian and is an expert on Chinese poetry and porcelain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE HOUR, AT LAST | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

Thunder Gulch, the dimmest star in trainer D. Wayne Lukas' trio of starters, thundered out of a wall of 18 horses to win the 121st running of the Kentucky Derby. --By Kathleen Adams, Lina Lofaro, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders and Sidney Urquhart

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: APRIL 30-MAY 6 | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

Nine years after Cosette and company immigrated to the United States, it is safe to say that Alain Boubil's epic adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1500-page toms has a death grip on popular culture. It is the great international cry-fest, the teariest tear-jerker of them all. Its every laugh is tempered with reminders of the pre-revolutionary tribulations of France's lowest classes; and the jubilation of Valjean's victory over his past is mitigated by the despair of the students' doomed rebellion...

Author: By Matthew L. Kramer, | Title: Les Miserables Marches On | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...Nauman's use of words. His slogans--EAT AND DIE, TOUCH AND LIVE, HATE AND DIE and so on, done in flashing neon--are laconic, all right, but Beckett and Wittgenstein they're not, though the co-curator, Robert Storr, tries stubbornly to argue otherwise. Such eminent names--and Alain Robbe-Grillet's too--function as votive tin cans hung on the tree of Nauman's reputation, enhancing the piety with which one is meant to approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEING A NUISANCE | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

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