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Whose life is this, anyway? Alison Poole, not yet 21, is studying acting at the Strasberg Institute and excess at the end of a coke spoon. She is the protagonist of this fleet, frequently nasty and fitfully funny chronicle of drug delirium, sexual excess and committed shallowness during the dimming of the 1980s. She devotes so much time to getting off, in so many ways, that it is a wonder she found time to lend her voice to the narration. As he demonstrated in his 1984 Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney knows this turf and its voices...
...part of a resort-industry trend toward offering action-oriented vacations, the Hyatt-Waikoloa boasts a fleet of paddle boats plying a four- acre lagoon and trams traveling over wildlife preserves. For the less adventuresome: seven restaurants, twelve bars and a mile-long gallery of Oriental art. The resort cost more than $360 million to build, including $2 million for a 77-step, pink-flagstone grand staircase...
...fleet of flags and a parade of nations, ancient drums and modern skydivers, the torch, the oath, 88 trumpeters, 144 robots, 2,400 pigeons, 13,600 athletes. Count...
Look for a solid running game. Juniors Chris Konavalchik (418 yards rushing on 111 carries) and Paul Myott (69 yards rushing on 17 carries) are a respectable backfield. McElreavy says he will not start Solomon Johnson (12 TDs on the freshman team) but look for the fleet sophomore to see some playing time...
...checked the backgrounds of all the people who live within 500 yards of the Olympic Village. Finally, there are four rings of security boats off the coast to make sure that nothing bad comes in from the ocean. I think the outermost ring is the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet...