Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each day a long queue of the curious would form. Inside the packed gallery, people would argue and gesticulate in front of abstract paintings -- a red square on a white ground, a fragmented cubist portrait -- done a generation before their birth...
...because the state-controlled fashion industry had made it impossible for them to put together well-coordinated wardrobes. "When it comes to fashion in Moscow," she says, "a sense of humor is especially important." Her fellow designer, Katya Fillipova, 29, pokes fun at Soviet icons; her creations include a portrait of Lenin fastened to a rhinestone cross and sewn onto the jacket of a border guard...
...head, the designer can also be found at his favorite restaurant, L'Ambroisie, over a $150 lunch of scallops and Sauterne, waxing eloquent on the merits of white vs. black truffles. Anyone who refers to Kelly's origins as "poor black" is quickly set straight with a portrait of working-class warmth. "They expect that you come off some family that picked cotton with holes in their shoes," he says. "My grandmother worked for rich white people. Our hand-me-downs were good hand-me-downs!" Though Kelly's grandmother was a cook, his mother was a home economics teacher...
HIGH HOPES. A dotty old woman fights to keep her home amid the crush of gentrification. Working with a cast that has helped improvise its roles, British director Mike Leigh creates a group portrait of characters who live and breathe and squawk their wayward humanity on the margins of Margaret Thatcher's England...
...teachers put our magazine to use in the classroom. Three years ago, we began awarding $3,000 scholarships to 20 outstanding college students from around the country for their academic and extracurricular achievements. We have donated more than 1,500 original artworks made for TIME covers to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, where they are permanently displayed...