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Word: sarajevo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summertime conventions seem only a blink away. But July will bring another memorable event: the XXIII Olympiad, the largest Olympic Games ever organized and the first Summer Games held in the U.S. in 52 years. And almost as a prelude comes the first spectacular, the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. There the U.S. is thrusting into competition its most balanced and impressive team ever, one that stars the 1983 world's top-ranked man and woman skiers as well as America's ever formidable skaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 30, 1984 | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...person working on the project longest is Eastern Europe Bureau Chief John Moody, who has been observing preparations in Sarajevo for months, and is now ensconced there in one of the rooms that will accommodate TIME'S team at the Pension Bob, an aptly named hotel near the Olympic bobsled run. Says Moody: "I'm beginning to feel as much a host here as the natives, saying welcome to newcomers and feeling very much at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 30, 1984 | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...time is July 1914, the eve of World War I. The course the captain has plotted for the Gloria N. will take it close to the coastline of the Balkans, where at Sarajevo, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria has just been shot. However that event will resonate in modern history, it is, at least initially, no more than an incomprehensible inconvenience to this rather special company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Voyage of the Damned Fools | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...gilded age has up to now permitted all of the Gloria N. 's passengers to indulge. In fact, the point Federico Fellini wants to make in the liveliest, funniest and most assured movie he has directed in years is that the time for these absurdities is over. From Sarajevo onward, he is saying, the only follies grand enough to impose themselves on the world's consciousness will be political, and far more menacing than these little cultural lunacies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Voyage of the Damned Fools | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

Fuji stung Kodak by outbidding the American company to get the title of official film for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Kodak struck back by acquiring the right to have its film named the official one for both the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aiming for a Brighter Picture | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

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