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...Everyman; the lower-case ones were about lesser-known athletes' rubbing shoulders with the Great One. The marquee performer in the men's downhill, when finally it was completed, Hermann Maier, stormed out of the starting gate and, at the first major jump, turned into a cartwheeling, somersaulting blur of red and orange as he crashed through two retaining fences and ended up in a snowdrift without his skis (but miraculously walked away like the tough bricklayer he was). In the same race, Jean Luc Cretier, a customs officer who had never won a major downhill, skied to gold...
...many of us, Japan has come to mean crowded trains, high-tech gadgets, efficient systems, cool reserve--a neon blur, in the imagination, of pencil-thin high-rises in which traders in dark suits mutter into cell phones. Or, if not the hard realism of Tokyo's office blocks, then the gossamer romance of Kyoto's teahouses, all exquisite restraint and antique silence. Though both these sides are suddenly in evidence in Olympic Nagano, for most of its life the city and the village venues all around it have offered a down-home, uncrowded, friendly Japan where some...
...most first-years, Orientation Week is a blur of placement tests, introductions, Crimson Key events--and a capella...
...Conference there and opted for the Heritage Foundation instead. But we hope, with the return of the conference and the new appointments of conservatives, that the Kennedy School's political balancing act is about finished. After all, if its increasing conservative focus increases any more, the partisan shift might blur its policy priorities...
...after 50 years of wandering aimlessly around. Unfortunately, though, both her anecdotes and her comments, genuine as they are, get tiresome. Too many small, talented beggars and quaint roadside cafes, too many slightly tragic principalities with curious histories litter the pages of this book. The nations and cultures blur into each other: Luxembourg, San Marino, Monaco, Andorra are each different but by the end of the book seem remarkably similar and indistinguishable. After hearing about the Brittons, Sorbs, Wends and Karaim, it becomes difficult to remember which, exactly, was the hea-then tribes near the Czech border of Germany...