Word: luge
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Within hours of the opening ceremonies, one will be saying such words as "biathlon" again, and talking of Nordic skiing and the luge. A foreign language for Americans, who in a sense return to the Old World on these occasions, or a dream version of that world, to European movie kingdoms where athletes really do come from Liechtenstein. For 1984: Sarajevo. (Henceforth no schoolchild will be stumped on that
...most ennobling American era, they admit, but not such a bad one either. Worse things have happened, such as 20 years of assassinations, riots, Viet Nam and Watergate, OPEC's extortions and the dollar's humiliation. Après Ike, le déluge. Eisenhower's '50s begin to seem an almost golden time...
...buses turned balky again that very night, after the first run of the luge, leaving hundreds of people standing on the pavement with cold water seeping into their shoes. The trouble is that Americans would sooner take hook worm medicine than a bus. The fact is that the buses know they are despised, and in their resentment they simply would not stop...
...limousines in their homelands, and they no longer know how to smile at a bus that has lowered its ears, pat its flank, and get it to open its doors. No one is quite sure where the buses go when they are not sulkily picking up people at the luge run, but there is no doubt that the ban on private cars has cleared the streets of traffic. State troopers standing in the intersections kick pebbles and talk about their vacations. What is in some question is whether the war between the buses and the people may also have cleared...
...figure skating, ice dancing, second run men's giant slalom, men's 1000 meter speed skating, 10 km. cross-country individual, men's 15 km. combined biathlon, men's doubles luge...