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...show, produced by Don Mischer, performed by a cast of 5,500 and watched by 3 billion viewers worldwide, mixed Southern with Greek, pyrotechnics with Pindar, avant-garde with antebellum, pickup trucks with riverboats, the gargantuan with the precious. Like Atlanta, it desperately wanted to be liked by everybody, and it succeeded. The Call to the Nations, which opened the show, recalled both the French-Canadian Cirque du Soleil, which was a creative consultant, as well as a Brazilian samba school. Yet the two songs were written by two distinctly American composers: Summon the Heroes by Academy Award winner John...
...instructions. The chrome-plated trucks, which provided lighting around the field, were the most controversial part of the program because 1) they were Chevy trucks, and commercialism is taboo during the ceremonies; and 2) they supposedly fostered the redneck stereotype of the South. But as Andrew Young, the former Atlanta mayor and American ambassador to the U.N. who helped bring the Games to the South, pointed out, trucks are also utility vehicles driven by people of all colors. Labels be damned, the Welcome dancers at one point spelled out in flash cards, HOW Y'ALL DOIN...
...Olympics are rightfully criticized for their commercialism, but from the time the American delegation proceeded down the ramp, NBC went an hour without a commercial. Indeed, the ceremonies went by in a flash: the remarks by Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games president Billy Payne and International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch ("Atlanta, here we are!"), the proclamation ("I declare open the Games of Atlanta!") by President Clinton, the entrance of the Olympic flag, a tribute to Atlanta's Rev. Martin Luther King, the introduction of past Olympians...
Flame once devastated the city. Shortly after midnight, flame filled Atlanta with unspeakable...
...Brien the chance to make a clean break with the past imperfect begins next week in Atlanta on July 31, the first of the decathlon's grueling two days. It is an irony of Olympic fever that one can be, like O'Brien, a three-time world champion and the world record holder in an event and yet, minus that gold, still be only an athlete-in-waiting. But while it is unwise to be too cocksure, O'Brien, who turned 30 last week, is primed. He not only expects the gold but says, "I want to do it right...