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...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 anything its owner wanted. It was as personal, in that sense, as the poetry whose...
Down a dirt drive near the ocean in Malibu, Calif., through a gate hidden in a fence and past hundreds of pecking chickens, TIME Correspondent Denise Worrell found a small cabin some distance from a large main house hidden in the twilight. By the scuttering glow of a single lantern near the cabin fireplace, Bob Dylan, drawing occasionally on a Kool, talked easily with her on a variety of subjects...
Much of the dubiousness can be laid to misgivings about the two main players in Geneva and their willingness to strive seriously for an arms-control agreement. Despite a flurry of artfully crafted public appearances, Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev remains an unknown quantity to the American public. Some 93% of the survey group admitted knowing little or nothing about the new Soviet leader; 47% of those who know at least something about Gorbachev suspect that he cannot be counted upon to honor his end of a bargain. Gorbachev's public relations efforts and his youth (by past Politburo standards) notwithstanding...
Will the slowdown continue? That was the main question taken up at a meeting of TIME's Pacific Board of Economists in Hong Kong. In their annual forecast, the economists agreed that East Asia would spend another year in the doldrums. Though the board members expect a slight acceleration of growth rates in South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, they foresee further declines in Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand. Said Edward Chen, a board member and director of the Center of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong: "I do not see a very bright picture...
...Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's main campus, hemmed in by the city's shops, offices and apartments, Kezeng "Lily" Liao, 26, is hunkering down for study. Born in Shanghai, the marketing student with a diploma in the dark art of public relations arrived in Australia in 2001 to learn English. Liao has given up well-paid work as a guide for Chinese tourists visiting Victoria to concentrate on campus clubs and activities - and the subjects she hopes to complete to finish her degree by the end of 2006. "I think that adjusting back to life in China would...