Word: placidness
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...drive into Lake Placid. You are bused in from the closest available parking lot, 40 minutes outside of town. When Lake Placid reverts, so will the parking lot: Lake Placid to a small resort once touched by greatness, the lot to an airport on the side of a mountain called Marcy. Marcy--it is a name heard again and again in Olympicville...
Saranac is another parking lot. More buses go to Saranac than to Marcy. Buses are a big thing in Lake Placid...
...care less, except for the press, of course. "ABC tried to get a group of us to turn over a car for their television camera," a young woman from New Jersey announces to the Marcy and Saranac lines. "But we wouldn't do it." Applause and cheers. Lake Placid is actually a big love-in; everyone is in a good mood, slowly freezing to death smiling like Cheshire cats. And in perspective waiting in line is okay because you get to meet people and talk about the lines and the games, too, and Eric Heiden...
Overcoming the final obstacle to a gold medal in characteristically come-from-behind fashion, the United States hockey team ground out a tough 4-2 win over a stubborn squad from Finland on the final day of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics...
Werner Heisenberg's Principle of Uncertainty states that no one can predict the exact behavior of even a single atomic particle. Heisenberg might have appreciated the 1980 Winter Olympics. The Lake Placid Games have developed into a sort of festival of life's unpredictability. No one knows whether they will be the last Olympics of the modern era; international politics will settle that. A similar uncertainty hung like fog over the frozen spectators; none of them knew whether they would ever find a bus to carry them away from a darkening mountain to warmth again. Lake Placid...