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...touching level of insight into the sources of modern emotional malaise. Karen, awaking from eighteen years of slumber, describes how suddenly "nobody seems to be able to endure being by themselves...but at the same time they're isolated. People work much more, only to go home and surf the Internet and send e-mail rather than calling or writing a note or visiting each other." Yet as the story plows on, the barrage of philosophical ramblings begin to take on a preachy tone which descends into irritating evangelism. In the end, ghost-jock Jared returns to heal his lost...
Still, it's good reading. Surf on over to www.drudgereport.com. Another cool gossip site for TV and movie lovers is Harry Knowles' infamous Cool News site, at www.aint-it-cool-news.com...
...would triumph. Journalists handicapped the event in favor of Lipinski because she was so carefree and relaxed. She was all over the Olympic village, taking to dorm life faster than a pre-frosh. She celebrated Picabo Street's super-G win ("Isn't it neat!"), updated her Website at Surf Shack (one entry of Tara's Diary had six exclamation points in 11 sentences) and made stickers on the day of the finals. "I know when to relax," she said. "You don't just come here to skate, you come here to have fun too." She had seen the pressure...
...before the times run away from them. In any case, kids will be kids, even in the 21st century. You have only to go to the Olympic Village, where the game room is packed with students pounding away at Blast City screens and waiting to get into the cyber Surf Shack nearby, to be reminded that the Games are an unchanging festival of youth. The athletes' quarters resemble the student union at some Fun U., where the most prominent magazine on sale is Tiger Beat and healthy young people drift around in search of same...
...wine over gourmet French food after a long day of snowboarding wearing the latest gurobu and goguru. "This is Youngtown," marvels a Kyoto woman as she surveys a corner of the Echoland area where the Shop Jah Jah shares space with the Natchez "American pub," where the Magic Mushroom surf shop and Tijuana Cafe are next door and the Groovy Art Space hair salon is across the street. Thus the ultimate Japanese dream: to live in a Swiss chalet in Montana (with a 7-Eleven around the corner...