Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Okay, it's summertime, and your friend, buddy or significant other is harassing you non-stop about Southern California: the beaches, the amusement parks, the stars! With visions of "Baywatch" rescues, squeaky-voiced rodents and starring roles dancing in your head, you embark for Los Angeles and plunge head-first into...its congested freeway system! The price for fame and fortune never did come cheap, and L.A. is no exception. Before you know it, you're shelling out beaucoup bucks for an exercise in the imaginary, doggedly following fictional rodents-turned-superstars around the park while assiduously crushing real-live...
Still, it was not much fun. A large section of downtown near Olympic Park remained blocked off Saturday. Fans with tickets to the hotly anticipated track-and- field events Saturday arrived to find flags flying at half-staff and a dense cordon of security around Olympic Stadium. Basketball lovers at the Georgia Dome were forced to wait in extra-long lines, as several entrances were closed. And at Lake Lanier, where rowing finals were taking place, soldiers toting machine guns patrolled the grandstands. It did not look much like America. But it was. --Reported by Mark Coatney, Adam Cohen, Sally...
...much damage as those packed with expensive talent. Even as he enjoys the success of Independence Day, Chernin is concerned that so many of the summer's hits were driven by special effects. Next summer will bring even more. "You're looking at the Batman sequel, the Jurassic Park sequel, Starship Troopers, Speed 2, Titanic and two volcano movies," he says. Such pictures routinely cost $100 million or more to make even without major stars...
...denied an hour later. Devers, who thus becomes the first man or woman since Wyomia Tyus in '64 and '68 to repeat in the 100, was quick to bank her joy with concern for the loved ones of the people injured and killed in the blast at Olympic Park. "It's hard to enjoy this," said Devers, "knowing that someone is trying to destroy the Olympic spirit. But they won't be able to do that unless we let them...
This brooding resignation takes over in one of the first cop novels to come out of Sarajevo's agony, The Monkey House (Crown; 384 pages; $25). Author John Fullerton, a British reporter who covered Sarajevo during the war, has patterned his story after Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith's shadowy 1981 tale of cold war Moscow. Rosso, Fullerton's cop, is a Croat chief inspector of detectives investigating a murder that may be tied to the city's metastasizing drug trade...