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...sometimes seems, to the sun-splashed dazzle of the Summer Games. Barcelona this year has Gaudi, Miro, Isozaki; Albertville has mostly an industrial town that sounds as if it were named after the Crown Prince of Monaco (a member of the Monegasque bobsled team). The Winter Games are chill, Nordic, taciturn -- redolent of Ingmar Bergman and dark Decembers. Instead of sprints and dives, they offer double Axels (not what you find on the bottom of your Peugeot) and luges (which one American Congressman took to be something...
...chill is spreading across the U.S. as the end of the cold war pushes military contractors into the sharpest cutbacks since World War II. Still reeling from the loss of 200,000 jobs since Ronald Reagan's military buildup peaked in 1987, the industry could lose 500,000 more jobs by 1995. "There's going to be a rapid shrinkage in the next 36 months," says Howard Rubel, who follows defense and aerospace for the C.J. Lawrence securities firm. "Whole divisions are going to vanish. Long-term planning now means 'How are we going to get people out the door...
...luxury, Americans got back to basics. They cut down on spending, started to pay off their debts and learned to make do with less. It happened just in time. The recession, which at first seemed quick and painless, took a scary dive for the worse. In the deepening economic chill, the yearning for simpler pleasures and thriftier ways became not only a virtue but a necessity...
ENYA: SHEPHERD MOONS (Reprise). Gaelic music of a different sort. Enya sounds like Sinead O'Connor after an overdose of chill pills; her songs seem, at first hearing, like the ideal background for stores that sell granola and wind chimes. But hang in. Enya mixes New Age with space age and Irish mysticism, and there is supple witchery here...
Wilson's veto sent a chill through civil rights activists across the country. Four other states -- Hawaii, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Connecticut -- have passed broad antidiscrimination laws, and a national bill is pending before Congress. Gays had viewed California, as the country's most populous state and a leader in civil rights legislation, as a critical test case...