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...million. Buoyed by the TV deal, he turned toward his other big source of revenue, America's largest corporations. To create an aura of coveted elitism, he drastically reduced the number of sponsors to 30 (there had been 381 in the 1980 Winter Games at Lake Placid) and hiked the price to an unprecedented $4 million minimum per corporation...
Rosalie Kirkendale Lake Placid...
...lived in Mexico City most of my life and saw its transformation from a small, placid, clean city into the monster it has become. The worst problem continues to be corruption at all levels of government. If 30 public officials were to return what they "borrowed," Mexico's foreign debt could be paid in less than one week...
...ways. The Bostonians continues where The Europeans--a recent Henry James adaptation by the same producer, director, and writer--left off. The latter was a competent, meticulous, pleasant enough piece about a broad of scandalous foreigners who descend on the placid New England scene. The Bostonians is visually reminiscent of the earlier film, but looks even more gorgeous. Shot around Beacon Hill, Harvard, and Martha's Vineyard, it is so consistently picturesque you almost expect to see Whistler's name in the credits. The main problem with Ivory's Europeans were the Europeans themselves, who were about as scandalous...
Atlanta-based Correspondent B.J. Phillips, a member of the TIME contingent that covered the Winter Games in Sarajevo as well as the 1980 Winter Games at Lake Placid, marveled at the resilience of the American athletes, particularly the gymnasts. "It was old home week for me in Pauley Pavilion," says Phillips, who has been following U.S. gymnastic progress since the 1979 World Championships in Fort Worth. "It was all the more bittersweet because I had gone to Moscow to cover the 1980 Games they could not attend. After the men's team victory, I talked to Bart Conner. There...