Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Figure skating? Okay, well this one can't be salvaged. Remember when Surya Bonaly did a backflip during warmups and almost decapitated a competitor? That was cool...
...sure they take some people who didn't goto boarding school," this sophomore says, addingshe became good friends with some of the women shemet during the punch events. "But it's like payingmoney to have people be my friends. These peopleare cool. I just thought that we could be friendswithout being...
That's in synch, of course, with young Japanese, who crowd into head shops in Hakuba and talk of winter sports as kakkoi, or cool, without referring to temperature. "Snowboarding's awesome, man," Shoji Koike, a student of Tsukuba University, volunteered, unsolicited, last week. "Once you've tried it, you don't go back to skiing...
...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...
...classic novel Snow Country, the Nobel prizewinning writer Yasunari Kawabata depicted the mountains of Japan's far north as the place where jaded urbanites could come to bathe in a forgotten innocence--symbolized by the cool Tokyo dilettante who takes up with a local geisha. At the book's haunting end, the man is returning to his wife in Tokyo, suitably refreshed, and the country girl, heartbroken, is left with only memories. Therein lies the promise, and the danger, of what promise to be splendid Games...