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This time around, gold-medal brands such as Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana squared off against more stealthy competitors such as Jil Sander and Bottega Veneta in a duel of trends that pitted the ultrasexy look of the '80s against the sober minimalism of the '90s. Sex vs. sobriety is an age-old Milanese rivalry--one that goes back to the early days of Italian ready-to-wear when Giorgio Armani stood on one side of the fashion ring with his sleek, pared-down pantsuits and Gianni Versace fought back with high-octane glamour and glitz. More recently, in the late...
They won just one medal at the Torino Olympics, and the shipping company P&O, which once held the Empire together, has been sold to an Arab sheikdom, but the British still lead the world in heists. Since the Great Train Robbery in 1963, a succession of raids--each seemingly larger than the last--has provided a stream of ripping yarns for crime writers. Last week's entry into the genre, which may have netted Ł40 million ($70 million in U.S. currency) or even more--the precise figure has not been revealed--will doubtless spawn its own literary offspring...
...Speaking for the Silent In 1985 Elie Wiesel [INTERVIEW, Feb. 6] received the Congressional Gold Medal from Ronald Reagan "in recognition of his ... contributions to world literature and human rights." In describing Wiesel's achievements, TIME wrote of his witnessing the Holocaust and his memoir Night, currently a selection of Oprah's Book Club. Here is an excerpt from that article [March...
...certain degree of diplomacy. "The Olympics," Pescante said, "are different from a bicycle race." Some athletes, however, like the idea of criminalizing doping. Canadian cross-country skier Beckie Scott, who finished third in the women's 5-km pursuit at Salt Lake City but was boosted into the gold medal position after two Russian skiers were thrown out, told Time: "Personally I think it [Italy's law] is a good thing, making it a criminal act and making it illegal. It's fighting fire with fire." For the moment, the Olympics have no way to standardize treatment of doping across...
...Getting cast in a school play as] Santa Claus in the second grade was here,” he commented, placing his hand low above the table. “Winning a gymnastics sectional medal was up here,” he said, moving his hand up a level. “Trumpet competition was somewhere here. Golden Globes was somewhere here. David di Donatello award in Italy was somewhere here. And then there’s a huge gap to the Harvard Pudding. I can’t even reach...