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...AUGUSTA, Ga--The galleries at the Augusta National Golf Course, the site of the famed Masters Golf Tournament, do not really care that Tommy Aaron, the local Georgia favorite, won the tournament or that Jack Nicklaus finished two back or ten back. They came to relax in the warm April sun and beautiful flowered setting and watch a spectacle that just happened to be golf...
...Decatur, Ga...
Lamar B. Hill, 49, onetime president of the First National Bank of Cartersville, Ga., is perhaps the nation's all-time champion embezzler. Over the course of 21 years, he stole $4,611,473,35. Since he was sentenced last week to only ten years, and will be eligible for parole in about three years, he does not feel too bad about his fate-indeed, he feels almost philosophical...
Europe had its fashions in things Oriental: chinoiserie in the 18th century, Japanese screens and lacquer at the end of the 19th. But the Namban-ga, or "paintings of the southern barbarians" (the route from Europe lay round India, to the south), are a rare example of such a vogue in reverse. The very fact that, by the early 17th century, some feudal lord had commissioned a World Map and Four Major Cities of the World (see color), painted on twin eight-fold screens, is significant; his ancestors would not even have been curious, confidently locked as they were...
...turned the Alban Hills into something like the landscape around Kyoto, he faithfully retained the details -and mistakes-of the original, itself probably drawn by a man who had never been to Rome either. European engravers, in fact, provided a constant flow of information for Japanese painters of Namban-ga. The demand among the castle lords for paintings like A Western Prince on Horseback stemmed partly from the princes' recognizably military splendors; these gorgeously caparisoned Western samurai must have fitted the opulence of the Momoyama period's taste down to the last tassel and square foot of gold...