Word: solider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such doubts, Olympic boosters are in high gear. Albertville has printed glossy tourist brochures in four languages. Ski resorts are blanketed with garish billboards promoting Coca-Cola's Olympic sponsorship. Farmers' co- ops have stocked up on pine-tree honey in anticipation of record sales. Luxury hotels are booked solid with wealthy businessmen on promotional junkets. And in Albertville's Hall of Ice ("Don't call it a skating rink!"), volunteer tour guide Andre Cabot explains, "There's a grandeur to the Olympics. When it's all over, we'll say, 'How did we do it?' " A little Savoie-faire...
...fresh air of environmentalism -- Robert Schenkkan's THE KENTUCKY CYCLE, playing at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, aspires to no less than a history of the U.S., spanning two centuries in seven hours. If his view of the past is cruel, his factual grounding is solid. But what makes the work so hauntingly memorable is a poetic impulse, not a prosaic one. He confines the action to the same few hundred acres of his ancestral Cumberlands, telling a nation's story in terms of feelings for that patch of land among three families intertwined by treachery and revenge...
Shining Through is a solid attempt to recapture the nostalgia of the war years in a romantic melodrama full of adventure and intrigue. But in the ending, the valiant effort fails...
Other contributors included Brian Jones (21 kills), Jon Carpenter (10 kills) and Cody Church (8 kills). Off the bench, freshman Abbas Hyderi provided solid passing and stabilized the back...
Senior Brooke Bailey, sophomore Heather Sullivan, junior Kathy Shergalis and freshman Rosie Stovel all played solid matches...