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...host for the Games. Far up on Whiteface Mountain, growling Sno-Cats groomed the courses that will test the finest skiers in the world, while speed skaters glided across a shining oval of ice in front of Lake Placid High School. It could be-it should be-a glorious Winter Olympics...
...constituencies. There is almost always a dash of intellectual pretension (to please the grant-bestowing foundations), a splash of uplift (to humor the corporate sponsors) and a rustle of period costumes (to attract the BBC fans). The result is often tiresome television, but occasionally there is a glorious exception. Such is the case with American Short Story. Though this returning series satisfies all the dreary institutional demands of PBS, it also provides remarkably sophisticated entertainment...
...that he remained out of the country until his Soviet mentors decided it was safe for him to come home. Finally, on Tuesday evening, he appeared with several members of his new Cabinet at a televised rally, where he called on his countrymen to "come together and support our glorious revolution...
...here for the strike of '69. It was glorious, intoxicating--and a damn nuisance. But hey! What rice paddy would you be in today? Sure, we'd all have liked to pursued careers, but there was this little war whose demands for cannon fodder grew and grew, whose uselessness split up families bitterly, and whose deadly jaws opened wide for us, sheepskins in hand...
...Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones Records, 1971). Great lyric flights and glorious gutter ballads, from Moonlight Mile to Brown Sugar. This is bloodthirsty rock 'n' roll from the Mick Jagger-Keith Richard period...