Word: placidness
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...final event as Lake Placid adjusts to obscurity...
...casual eye, it appeared that the 13th Olympic Winter Games were over and done with. Yet one final, unlisted event was under way well before the last athletes had straggled out of Olympic Village. The happening: the great downhill plunge from celebrity to obscurity. The sole entrant: Lake Placid, N.Y. (pop. 2,700), U.S.A...
...course of the descent was so precipitous it would have scared the average downhiller into the snowshoe competition. It was almost straight down, the distance, precisely, from hurrah to blah. The time of the drop was nearly instantaneous. One moment Lake Placid was the most tumultuous news spot on earth, the next it was an amiable litter of vacancy signs. One moment it was the riveting center of the media's eldritch universe; the next it was just another out-of-the-way resort more or less waiting for next summer's convention of volunteer firemen...
...than anguish at the loss of customers and of a brief but vivid camaraderie. There was, as well, a sort of collective separation anxiety-a strictly modern malaise that occurs when a place newly spoiled by celebrity is suddenly disconnected from the media's great glory machine. Lake Placid's inevitable plunge began when TV and the whole journalistic shebang unplugged itself and disappeared...
...midst of production could not always summon enough time or energy. Worse, Sellers found the principal location, the Biltmore mansion in Asheville, N.C., cold and depressing in the winter. As usual, he found it impossible to leave his role on the set and walked around inside Chance's deadly placid character all the time, offering responses as bleak as the weather to everyone. Says he now: "It was hell for my wife...