Word: bluegrass
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Originally attended almost exclusively by Southern gentry and the world's most serious gamblers, the Run for the Roses now attracts more than 100,000 spectators, probably most of them college-aged. It's a spectacle par excellence, an unforgettable experience, and a slice of Americana unique to the Bluegrass State...
...reflects the economic turbulence of the '70s. Who could have predicted 15 years ago that the quintessential gentlemen's hobby would have become the preferred investment for sheiks, lawyers and industrialists alike? Suddenly (for Kentucky, at least), the rolling farmland and quaint barns which make the central Bluegrass one of the most picturesque regions in the nation acquired enormous value Inflation and its causes made it profitable, in only to invest massively in precisely those assets which make central Kentucky one of the most underrated tourist areas in North America-its farms, landscape, and related services...
Indeed not. Her Majesty's American holiday, five days in Kentucky's Bluegrass country and four in Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains, was her first unofficial trip abroad since 1967. Unlike the spectacular public tour of California last year with President Reagan, last week's vacation was determinedly private. Her accommodations, while grand, were also chosen for their isolation...
...Bluegrass music is not the normal sort of thesis that the History and Literature Department accepts, and Brown says: "I'm still surprised they let me do it." Despite the oddity of the topic the thesis may have helped the Harvard community learn more about the bluegrass sound so rarely heard around Boston--even in the Square. "Nobody around Harvard knew much about it. There was really nobody who could help much, so I was pretty much on my own," she says...
...bluegrass music seemed like an unusual topic for the History and Literature Department, then haute couture seemed like an equally unlikely topic for the Fine Arts Department. But James H. Lubowitz says he "made the assumption that fashion has aesthetic value and can be considered art," and then proceeded to analyze the aesthetics of Christian Dior in the 1950s...