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...with a population smaller than that of Rockefeller Center in New York City -- tended to diffuse the sense of panic and excitement, as did the cold reality of 10 sites scattered across 620 sq. mi. of mountainside. These genuinely did seem the small-town Games, the Games of one-lane roads and gyms turned into press centers. True, the main street of Albertville had become a huge window display for such arcana as smiling M&M's on skis, a version of the Olympic mascot, Magique, made entirely of chocolates and other gadgets Olympiques. Billboards around town featured uplifting quotations...
They began with a trip down memory lane, tracing her path from a sunbaked toddler in Coppertonecommercials to her current status as a "diverse"actress...
...disaster struck last February, cutting off several resorts from the outside world for two days. Olympic organizers say they are prepared. "The first flake won't even have time to hit the asphalt," says Killy. "It will land on a snowplow." But a few minor accidents on the two-lane mountain roads that lead up to the ski runs, bobsled course and hockey rink could create gridlock in transporting the 2,300 athletes, 6,000 journalists and 800,000 spectators who are to start arriving this week. "If coordination doesn't improve, the Games will be a sizzling failure," warned...
Nevertheless, Goudge does not try to disguise that her artistic aspiration is to write popular fiction as opposed to great literature. She calims to have been inspired to write by a third cousin, Elizabeth Goudge, who wrote fiction with titles such as Towers in the Mist and Green Dolphin Lane which were widely read in Victorian England...
Concerns about Scheme Z surfaced in 1990 when citizens and local activists protested the state's plans to go ahead with the $400 million project, saying that the proposed 11-story, 16-lane interchange would be an eyesore and an environmental disaster...