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...Nagano is lit up with that same sense of bright excitement, flags fluttering, hardware stores displaying signs that say, GO, JAMAICA, GO (the bobsled team is back), and bus drivers reciting, "Have a nice day," even after night has fallen. The area had been planning to stage an Olympics in 1940, but war put its plans on hold for more than half a century. Now, in the excitement of the moment, Olympic athletes were offered free bowling lessons at the Young Pharaoh Bowl, and even in public rest rooms, visitors were treated to piped-in vibraphone versions of local nursery...
...Hokkaido and Okinawa, it has never had an airport. Even now, with a million Olympic visitors expected, the nearest airport to the Main Press Center consists of a modest, two-story box appointed with exactly four check-in counters and one baggage carousel, 75 min. away by (very occasional) bus. As your plane takes off from Matsumoto, the technicians all line up on the tarmac to wave goodbye...
...cheeked, wood-burning relative still known to eat raw horsemeat and pond snails and crickets. In a chestnut-filled village just 30 min. from central Nagano, a ruddy-faced high school boy gets off his bike to walk a visitor to his destination. An old woman at a country bus station counts out change with an abacus. The driver of a Highland Express cab (working 24-hr. shifts) is a robust woman with a basket of huge apples by her side. Nagano is a world of deep, ancestral sounds: the traditional melody of a potato seller audible downtown; the mournful...
...Apostle required 35 years of watching and waiting. In 1962, during rehearsals for an off-Broadway show in which he was to play a man from Hughes, Ark., Duvall broke up a transcontinental trip to stop in Hughes. "I got off the Trailways bus," he recollects, "and wandered into this little church. There was a lively preacher; the congregation was stomping and moving and feeling the spirit. I said I'd like to play one of these guys one day." When he asked Foote to do the screenplay, the author encouraged the actor to try it himself. In 1984 Duvall...
...were unable to use the service as the result of delayed buses, please e-mail poliakof@fas with an explanation of the circumstances and day and time of the bus so that we can make the appropriate arrangements to refund the cost of your ticket...