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Nearly 600 members of the U.S. Olympic team are cheering and shouting. "There is a new patriotism spreading across our country," the visitor declares as he looks out over the red-white-and-blue uniforms. "So when you're out there, set your sights high . . . Then go for it! Do it for yourselves, for your families, for your country. And will you forgive me, if I may be a little bit presumptuous, do it for the Gipper...
...EAST. Even though the yen has fallen 9.9% against the dollar since 1980, Tokyo remains an expensive place to visit. "I haven't found anything cheaper in Japan," snapped a visitor from Ohio. Dinner at a good Tokyo steak house runs about $24, up $8 from 1980. Nor are electronic wares or other Japanese specialties particularly cheap. American shoppers are finding that high-quality Japanese cameras cost about as much in Tokyo as in New York City. But many travelers say that they did not go to Japan for the bargains. One survey found that most Americans were attracted...
...soldier does not mix easily in the brave new world of international alliances and monetary congresses. His former colleagues shunt Zwedu toward oblivion, using the lure of well-heeled debauchery. In A City of the Dead, a City of the Living, a black couple in Soweto take in a visitor who may have been involved in the terrorist bombing of a police station. He and the husband talk politics; the wife, increasingly unsettled for reasons of her own, reports the guest to the white authorities...
...been, from plaster Apollos to graffiti, from marble to flickering television sets. The prevailing tone is of fatigue and mannerism. Everyone complains that the Biennale, like art itself, is in decline; such complaints are a necessary part of the ritual of visiting it. But this year in particular the visitor feels like a tourist in a glass-bottomed boat, gliding over a dying reef: here a brilliant polyp, there a parrot fish or sea fan, but acres of dead whitishgray coral to tell the real story...
...captain rushed to his bathroom and returnedwith a white bath towel, which I had to struggle to keep over my head during the interview. When asked what Iran would do if Iraq destroyed Kharg Island, as it has threatened to do if faced with an Iranian ground offensive, our visitor said, "They don't understand the power we have. It is the power...