Word: placidness
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August. The campaign reflects fears that China's traditionally placid society is threatened by an outbreak of violence, signaled by an upsurge in muggings and sexual assaults...
...EAIAW is gone, replaced by the Eastern College Athletic Conference [ECAC]. This year's tournament will be held in Lake Placid, N.Y., but it will include only four teams. However, there is a possibility of an additional four-team invitational which will be played at the same time...
...Girl and Local Hero. For it lacks the wayward exuberance and quirkiness of those small delights. No inexplicable motorcyclist or man in a penguin suit is permitted to wander through Director Duffell's tidy frames. Nor are any brief, enlivening emotional squalls that might stir up those placid waters. The result is rather like a nice day at the beach: nothing wrong with it, but nothing much you can remember about it either. Sheer inoffensiveness should not be enough to recommend a film; if that is one's only criterion, better to stay home and read Barbara...
They're really stars, now. that's what happens when you play for the U.S. Olympic team that follows the Lake Placid gold-medal winners...
...opening ceremonies, that lovely Olympic parade, dress may be formal or informal, and even ceremonial, beret to burnoose. For the 1980 Winter Games at Lake Placid, the American athletes came as Western ranch hands in ten-gallon hats. Next summer in Los Angeles, they will come as athletes. After a public vote, or at least a poll of department-store shoppers, the U.S. Olympic Committee elected last week to introduce the 1984 team in sweats and visors, baggy but bright. Some 700 athletes and coaches will be supplied 35 mix-and-match garments by Levi Strauss & Co. The warmup suits...