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David Bowie: Let's Dance (Bowie and David Mallett). A sexy song fused onto a magical love story set in the big cities and the outback of Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: THE TOP 20 VIDEOS | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

...John Bertrand, 36, is already contemplating how Australia will change the rules after it captures the Cup. "If we win," he says, "we're going to make sure all sailcloth must be made of kangaroo hide. Then we are going to fill up a salt lake in the outback and defend the Cup there." After this wild America's Cup summer, stranger things could happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Here Come the Aussies! | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

Australian Director Bruce Beresford approaches the adolescent surfing culture of a Sydney suburb as if he were an anthropologist and his subjects were an exotic outback tribe. But the somewhat distant and objective manner that served so effectively to dehydrate his Tender Mercies fails him here. Two girls (prettily played by Nell Schofield and Jad Capelja) scheme to gain admission to the gang, win acceptance and then at last outgrow the group. The tale is not told with great dramatic intensity. Nor is it really as strange and shocking as Beresford seems to think it is. Indeed, to jaded American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Jul. 18, 1983 | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

Down swooped the gleaming Boeing 707 and out popped a coatless Prince Charles, a cool Princess of Wales and a romper-suited Prince William, blinking in the early-morning sunshine. The visitors had landed in Alice Springs, smack in the heart of the desolate Australian outback. From there, nine-month-old William was flown off to Woomargama, a comfy 4,000-acre ranch, where he will rest while his parents glide through their 25,000-mile, six-week tour of Australia and New Zealand, returning nine times to check up on their son and recuperate. Their first stop: Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Royal Welcome | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

Black stump, beyond the: any excessively remote part of the outback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Guide to Strine | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

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