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Some businesses have had an easier time making the call. In Ohio, Cleveland's Dover Lake Waterpark had a Tsunami pool, which didn't seem quite so inviting after the tragedy. Shortly after the disaster, it was rechristened Whitecap. --By Jeremy Caplan

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tsunami By Any Other Name | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

Ford, 39, born in Texas, raised in New Mexico and aged in New York City and Europe, has been on the whitecap of--or indeed, his splashes have created--just about every fashion wave since his Fall 1995 collection for Gucci. That was the show that brought about a rapprochement between the stylish and the '70s, reacquainting humanity with velvet hip huggers and satin shirts in a way that allowed us to see an inner beauty or relevance we had somehow overlooked for nigh on two decades. Ford gave that silhouette's androgyny a new spark, suggesting that being located...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion Designer: Tom Ford | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...Harvard and Radcliffe lightweight crew teams stroked to victories this past weekend while the Radcliffe heavies outdistanced Cornell but faltered to Princeton in a whitecap-ridden course in their tri-meet Saturday...

Author: By Peter G. Wilcox, | Title: Lightweights Garner Top Spots; Heavies Falter, Finish Second | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...style as much as the songs he sang that made Elvis Presley such an immediate, and ultimately irreplaceable, phenomenon. Initially, it was all a matter of attitude, the low lids, the lip that curled up like a whitecap before breaking on the beach, the musky voice that seemed to take its honey coating from a lot of scruffy worldliness and its distinct throb from straight below the waist. His first appearances were small Pop cataclysms. The sensuous movements that headline writers called "gyrations" and that earned Presley nicknames he did not like-Swivel Hips, the Pelvis-had their roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Stop on the Mystery Train | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

Some of the islands are so small that they seem no bigger than a whitecap from a few miles' distance. The way a Navy plane's navigator can hit a tiny speck in the vastest of oceans is amazing. The navigators seldom miss, and no navigator misses but once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT HOME & ABROAD: Life on the Atolls | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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