Word: suburbanity
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...modern European city. "There have probably been some overruns, but I still consider Athens' legacy to be a very good one," says Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee ( i.o.c.). "It's a new city. They have the airport, they have the ring road, they have the suburban trains and they have the metro." You might think that in light of Athens' very mixed record, other cities would look at the Greek experience and shy away. You would think wrong. On July 6, in Singapore, the i.o.c. will announce which city will next take up the Olympic torch...
...locker just to touch him. "Eleven years of climbing that mountain," he sighed, speaking not altogether figuratively. As the boy once ran the hot sandbanks by the Pearl River close to his home in Columbia, Miss., the man has made training device of a black dirt hill near suburban Arlington Heights. "I have to work harder every year," he says. "Let's put it this way, when I first started playing football, I didn't use as much adhesive tape as I use now." So at least two months before each season, his regimen begins...
...People's Park, a public museum. Faithful so far to another promise, the former housewife showed every sign of for-swearing the designer life-style of her predecessors. She still operates out of a guesthouse next to the Spanish-style palace and commutes to work from her modest suburban home...
...than legendary to those who followed the sport. Said one admirer: "I don't know what God looks like, but I know what He sounds like." In 1977 his daughter, Cyra McFadden, created a literary stir with her first novel. The Serial, a wry look at some laid-back suburban lives in California's Marin County. There was not much in this book, frankly, to attract die-hard rodeo fans. On the other hand, it seems fair to assume that most of those who bought and enjoyed The Serial had never heard of Cy Taillon...
...sister-in-law's home. "The women did all the business calculations and decided there would be a market for our house," said Arnason, who is renting out their four-bedroom flat for $3,000 for five nights. One woman telephoned a U.S. embassy official and offered her sprawling suburban home for $6,000 a day. He hung up on her. Why so brusque? "Gramm-Rudman," he grumbled...