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...building yachts that are technologically superior to those of all their challengers. Measuring 64 ft. 7 in. from its snub-nosed bow to its raked-back stern, Australia II has the most radical keel ever to hang from the bottom of a 12-meter-yacht*. Though the Aussies ostentatiously drape a shroud over the keel when the boat is hauled out after each day's sail-psych is everything in the America's Cup competition-just about all of Newport knows what Australia H's secret weapon looks like: it is bulging in the front, separates into...
...return to suspenders has also been spurred by changing fashions. Designers of more traditional men's clothing such as Ralph Lauren and Alan Flusser have popularized pants with a double front pleat. Explains Allan Ellinger, president of Alan Flusser Inc.: "The only way to make pleated trousers drape properly is to use braces...
...Friends is the celluloid equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting, splashing everything about the sixties--sex, drugs, rock, JFK, the moon shot, draftcard burnings, racial tension, etc--into one amorphous mass, demanding more emotion and extracting more then it's worth. Penn and screen writer Steve (Breaking Away) Tesich drape images of America--idealistic immigrants, the national anthem, a flag-burning--with out ever evoking an emotion. The "action" drags so that you find yourself not only out guessing the "suspense," but imagining situations more compelling than those that actually transpire...
...dressmakers' workroom is a small L-shaped area on the fourth floor of a dilapidated building in downtown Los Angeles. Tattered sheets drape the dirt-streaked windows. Seven seamstresses, ages 18 to 45 and all from Latin America, sit in a tight row, huddled over their humming machines, monitored by a stocky Hispanic woman with a shock of bright orange-red hair. On a nearby desk rests a broken time clock. The workers were not paid last week; they may not be paid this week. The boss will pay them when she has the money. Mañana. Perhaps...
...shown us that a hollow and wholly perfunctory attachment to the procedures of humane government often defines authoritarian regimes. The pseudo-legalistic cant of their officials usually reveals nothing so much as a cynical, even barbaric disregard for the substance of a civilized legal system. Ambassador Barros' attempt to drape the mantle of due process over his regime has confirmed this dismaying truth...