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...skull against sword and club. But was ever a martial object more drenched in symbolic fancy? The helmet had to convey no meaning to the warlord's troops except its own singularity. It was the exact reverse of a "uniform"; it was a portable spectacle. Its shape was not determined by the kind of functional rules that governed the making of a samurai's main emblem, the katana or long sword, whose basic form was fixed by the 13th century and did not alter much in the next 600 years. Instead, the helmet--his secondary emblem of power--could mean...
...take third place in his age group in the 1982 national championship for slalom, giant slalom and downhill. But he wants to win that title too, so he often takes Fridays off and flies in his Cheyenne IIXL turboprop to Sun Valley, Idaho, for practice. To get in shape for bicycle races, he pedals his trail bike up 2,600-ft. Mount Tamalpais, near his home. Weisel has boasted that his occasional riding partners are left with "their tongues hanging out." That goes likewise for his business rivals...
...Developments within China will also shape the future relationship. China is so large, and its problems so complex, that the important question is not whether economic and political crises lie ahead - they certainly do - but how the Chinese government handles them. The signs domestically since the disaster of the Tiananmen Square killings in 1989 have been reassuring, but the challenges are enormous. China's foreign policy skills will also be tested as it manages what it calls its "peaceful rise." Will it revert to traditional Middle Kingdom ways of thinking about its neighbors and thereby generate a backlash...
...they're starting to win the big commissions - actually, the biggest: last year, Guan Wei's 120-panel wall painting, Feng Shui, took up its new home in the foyer of Melbourne's Bureau of Meteorology. "Oh yes, they're very clever," says curator Rhana Devenport, who helped shape the last four Asia-Pacific Triennials at the Queensland Art Gallery. Chinese artists are "very clear about their own practice, and very careful about where they're positioning themselves in the country...
Staying in tiptop shape has forced the students to make some social sacrifices...