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...Window Damage...
...Office Fruit Luncheonette with three men nursing coffees and egg salad sandwiches and a sign that says "Do Not Touch Magazines Unless Going to Buy" and the rack of aspirin bottles that have been sitting there collecting dust since the Reagan administration. On this Saturday, the tabloid in the window runs the cover story "Bill Clinton's Four-in-a-Bed Orgies with Black Hookers" and "'He's The Father of My Child,' Claims Ghetto Gal He Had Sex With Thirteen Times." It is primary season in New Hampshire with three days...
...holds up mid-afternoon traffic on Elm Street for fifteen minutes, and a woman leans out the window of her Chevy to ask what is going on. The Bush motorcade appears in the distance, approaches, passes by at twenty miles an hour. Eleven police cars with flashing lights, then the six press vans, the Secret Service, the Buicks full of aides, the ambulance, finally the President's limo and then more police...
...which the plane would fly close to but not touch the airstrip of nearby Evansville Regional Airport. Soon after takeoff, the plane went into a nose dive. William Capodagli was in a seminar room of the motel when the plane hit. "There was this incredible fireball bursting through our window," he says. "Where there should have been daylight was a big spinning ball of flame...
...panic and excitement, as did the cold reality of 10 sites scattered across 620 sq. mi. of mountainside. These genuinely did seem the small-town Games, the Games of one-lane roads and gyms turned into press centers. True, the main street of Albertville had become a huge window display for such arcana as smiling M&M's on skis, a version of the Olympic mascot, Magique, made entirely of chocolates and other gadgets Olympiques. Billboards around town featured uplifting quotations from Andre Gide and Catullus, while discos offered such unlikely come-ons as "La Nuit du Single People...