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...tableau of seamless, often gorgeous image-making, it was the wobble of that flame that made it all memorable - and the other bursts of spontaneity that broke through the tightly controlled script. Many of these came with the Parade of Athletes, when not even on-field prompters could hurry the joyful gambol of competitors claiming center stage. As the ceremony's artistic director, David Atkins, later quipped, "You can't get Brazil to march in straight lines." Then, as the evening moved into overdrive, there was diva Tina Arena's deep breath, and wink to the orchestra, before she launched...
...They weren't the only countries to be galvanized by the spirit of the Games. Passing through 11,000 hands during the torch relay's 100-day, 27,000-km journey, the Olympic flame has brought Australia into closer touch with itself. The relay "symbolizes everything that's good about the Games," former marathon champion Robert de Castella has said. "Somehow it's been able to capture the balance between the grass roots and the elite side of the Olympics." In a chain of simple gestures, the Olympic ideal was made tangible...
...already declaring victory over the Games of Atlanta. Australia's opening ceremony not only had ceremony but also offered substance in twin dramas of national and international reconciliation. When Aboriginal Cathy Freeman, a favorite in the 400-meter run, crossed a pond of water to light the Olympic flame, she symbolically bridged a racial divide that has tainted and tormented Australia. And during the parade of athletes, the teams of South and North Korea entered as one, two bitter enemies reuniting for sport. Stop the presses: Peace breaks out at the Olympics...
...rabbi. He shuffles through the crowd, small and bowed. They touch him for his blessing. He is a tzaddik, a holy man, a saint. "I will clean the people," he mutters. His arm winging like a metronome, Rabbi Yaakov Ifargan slings candles into a brazier until the flame rises 20 ft. and wax sizzles onto the dusty ground. At 3 a.m., almost four hours into this ceremony, he turns to a row of cripples, sweating near the fire in their wheelchairs. "Are you a believer?" Ifargan asks Gabriel Rafael, 22, who suffers from multiple sclerosis. The crowd raises Rafael...
...Traumatized, in what the shrinks call a fugue state, she completely enters the soap's slightly tacky alternative reality. Convinced that its leading hunk, Dr. David Ravell (the amusingly actorish Greg Kinnear), is her long-lost fiance, she sets off for Los Angeles, intent on rekindling this imaginary old flame...