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Atlanta-based Correspondent B.J. Phillips, a member of the TIME contingent that covered the Winter Games in Sarajevo as well as the 1980 Winter Games at Lake Placid, marveled at the resilience of the American athletes, particularly the gymnasts. "It was old home week for me in Pauley Pavilion," says Phillips, who has been following U.S. gymnastic progress since the 1979 World Championships in Fort Worth. "It was all the more bittersweet because I had gone to Moscow to cover the 1980 Games they could not attend. After the men's team victory, I talked to Bart Conner. There...
...much water out of the subsoil has caused parts of the city to sink, in some places as much as 30 ft., a process worsened by periodic earthquakes. The redoubtable Palace of Fine Arts, which looks rather like some turn-of-the-century world's fair pavilion made of vanilla ice cream, has sunk nearly 10 ft. since it was completed in 1934. The 16th century church of San Francisco, which has sunk 5 ft., can be approached only by going down a flight of stone stairs. At the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, just north...
...Klimt and Schiele, furniture by Hoffman and Moser, posters, stage designs, textiles, jewelry, ceramics by dozens of artists both famous and obscure. Apart from Venice itself, this is the main reason for going to Venice. The other is a one-man show by Howard Hodgkin at the English pavilion. Not since Robert Rauschenberg's appearance at the Biennale 20 years ago has a show by a single painter so hogged the attention of visitors or looked so effortlessly superior to everything else on view by living artists. One enters it with a sense of relief: here the wearisome traits...
...There's water, water everywhere," a tour guide assures the visitor. "And plenty else to drink." Just so. Water fountains for the thirsty were in short supply last week, but a daiquiri stand was an instant success, as was the bar in the Australian Pavilion (where an oversize can of Foster's Lager was going for $5.50, and going very well indeed). Swelling the city's already eclectic cuisine is an international array of offerings from bratwurst and gelato to the spicy home-town jambalaya. Some food sellers, however, particularly those...
...games are not the whole point. First-week visitors crowded into the Vatican Pavilion to see its rare collection of art treasures. (A ticket for the Vatican exhibit costs $5, the only pavilion not included free in the fair's $15 general admission.) Another early favorite was Canada's 15-minute film that takes viewers on a giddy journey careering over rapids, falls and rivers to celebrate that country's boast of having more fresh water than all the rest of the world together. A 15-minute, 3-D film in the U.S. Pavilion is almost...