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Even before Australia II arrived at Newport, its white hull swathed in a modest blue-green canvas skirt, word had spread of the challenger's hidden, revolutionary keel design. The New York Yacht Club tried mightily, ignobly, and in vain to have the foreign boat disqualified. Meanwhile, the wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Best Cup Challenge Ever | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

One of the most popular, and controversial, types of back-relief products is so-called gravity-inversion equipment, which began selling fast after Richard Gere was shown hanging heels over head in the 1980 film American Gigolo. Gravity Guidance of Pasadena, Calif., introduced the first inversion product: ankle straps now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Relief | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

Calculated outrage like this burns out fast, and Bowie was in danger of doing just that. Pale under all his stage makeup and already well into the high life, he was held together only by the weight of his old dreams. Born in Brixton, one of London's toughest neighborhoods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Bowie Rockets Onward | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

Strife be unto him who in enlightened times is fool enough to suggest that women are getting too big for their britches, but evidence abounds. There has now appeared on television The Sins of Dorian Gray, a modernized perversion of Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Women Are Getting Out of Hand | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

At the Paula Cooper gallery in SoHo, Alan Shields' exhibition is at a far remove from this exhibit. It consists of works in, and on, handmade paper, done in his Shelter Island, N.Y., studio over the winter of 1982-83: a small affair, only seven pieces, but certainly the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Revelations of Summertime | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

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