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Since Jefferson's day, the U.S. Senate has had a rule that no member can be absent from its sessions without permission. That quaint regulation is in a class with the custom that a gentleman always dresses for dinner or walks on the lady's curb side...
...just may be, Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, is no quaint village tucked away in the mountains. Larger than Boston, it is a teeming industrial city (pop. 1,030,000) ringed by ice-blue lakes and volcanic mountains. For the 35 Olympic events, the Japanese have built 14 ultramodern facilities, none more than an hour's drive from the city, at a cost of $31 million, the largest expenditure ever for the Winter Games. From the breathtaking downhill course carved in the side of Mount Eniwa to the giant 50,000-seat Makomanai...
...Each is turned out on a near-strangulation budget and schedule ($500,000 and 25 shooting days). The plots, usually lifted from some Victorian romancer like Bram Stoker or Sheridan Le Fanu, are as creaky as the doors of Castle Dracula. The starlets who flit through prehistoric landscapes or quaint Transylvanian villages, bosoms heaving with fright, seem as interchangeable as the sets...
...with nostalgia is that is has no sense of discrimination. One moment that wonderful year is 1944, the next it is 1932 or 1920. Nostalgia demands only that you recall a few tunes, reset your hair, and throw in some period slang. If it's old, if it's quaint, if it's not too memorable, it can only be nostalgic...
Looking Up. The book has the quaint fascination of an Horatio Alger tale. Walter Joseph Hickel was born at Ellinwood, Kans., in 1919, the son of a German-American tenant farmer. As a four-year-old, he scrambled to the top of the farm's windmill to get a better view of the world. Rushing to rescue Wally, his father shouted, "Keep looking up! Keep looking up!" The advice stuck...