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Klinkenborg's continuous narrative in "Townline" is an adult reflection on his small-town childhood. Klinkenborg's power lies partly in the softness of his voice, and partly in the unpretentious truth of his images...
...host of the Games, is a Bovaryville with a population smaller than that of Rockefeller Center in New York City -- tended to diffuse the sense of panic and excitement, as did the cold reality of 10 sites scattered across 620 sq. mi. of mountainside. These genuinely did seem the small-town Games, the Games of one-lane roads and gyms turned into press centers. True, the main street of Albertville had become a huge window display for such arcana as smiling M&M's on skis, a version of the Olympic mascot, Magique, made entirely of chocolates and other gadgets...
Forget about cruising California's freeways, riding New York's subways or eating in small-town Texas cafeterias that may attract deranged men with machine guns. You'd probably be safer in Jerusalem...
Snoozing at the mouth of a narrow valley, its air perfumed by nearby steel plants, its riverbank paved for a parking lot, its squat office buildings ringed by mounds of sooty snow, Albertville hardly seems destined for global fame. But raise your eyes above the small-town skyline: the Olympian glory of the French Alps explodes in a pastel sunset, sparkling through pine-serrated glaciers. After Sarajevo's Bosnian backwater and Calgary's urban stampede, the 16th Olympic Winter Games will be a soaring high-wire act: 57 events staged in 10 venues across seven valleys...
...just goes to show that Cambridge's increasingly metropolitan exterior belies its quirky, small-town interior...