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The first controversy involved the radical keel of the leading foreign challenger, Australia II. The brainchild of ebullient Australian Designer Ben Lexcen, the keel has provided Newport with gossip, speculation and creative chicanery all summer. Swathed in blue-green skirts whenever Australia II is out of the water, the supersecret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Do the Rules Now Rule the Waves? | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

At Tokyo's Yoyogi Park every Sunday, groups of momentarily rebellious adolescents come to perform a strange exhibition. They grease their hair into ducktails and put on black pegged pants and leather jackets, or else polka-dot crinoline skirts, and they group around tape-deck machines and dance to rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: All the Hazards and Threats of | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

He went to Europe in 1928 to study the Northern Renaissance portraits on which American Gothic is based, and to examine the work of Patinir and Bruegel, from which his aerial views of landscape were partly derived. He did not look at modern art when he was there, although there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Scooting Back to Anamosa | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

"There's still a sense of family and real community," says Andrew Lytle, novelist and English professor emeritus. Almost all 1,000 students are from middle-or upper-class families. About 80% of them are from the South; of those, 25% are from Tennessee. Nearly a third of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sewanee, How I Love You . . . | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

To friends, Rivera and Kahlo were known as "sacred monsters," symbols of "the race" that would be reborn in Communism. Pistol-packing Diego trooped about in work shoes, and Frida in elaborate peasant skirts and blouses, her hair bound with ribbons, her fingers weighted with rings. But the finery hid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wound and the Brush | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

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