Word: stadiumitis
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...Rose Bowl banner in Harvard Stadium doesn’t fool me. Nothing can convince me that our institution is still relevant in the world of college athletics...
...year-old Greek poem extols the power of music to enfold and enlarge Olympic glory. And so in the Italian host city of Torino, the athletes of the world marched into a stadium originally erected by former Fascist leader Benito Mussolini to several ancient tunes, such as Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive, KC & the Sunshine Band's I'm Your Boogie Man and the Village People's Y.M.C.A. Are these the Winter Olympic Games or a disco inferno? It does make some sense. For this is a country particularly proud of Infernos. Indeed, after the thump-thump-thumping came...
...year-old Greek poem extols the power of music to enfold and enlarge Olympic glory. And so in Torino, Italy, the athletes of the world marched into a stadium originally erected by the dictator Benito Mussolini to several ancient tunes, such as Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive, KC & the Sunshine Band's I'm Your Boogie Man and the Village People's Y.M.C.A. Are these the Winter Olympic Games or a disco inferno...
...Olympics are about the pride of the host country, but the Games also bring in worldly and cruel anxieties. Danish athletes reportedly received special protection because of the global swirl of threats surrounding the publication of cartoons inimical to the Prophet Muhammad. Everywhere in Torino and around the stadium, soldiers and police were visible. And until the disco music drowned them out, helicopters whirred loudly over the proceedings...
...Each seat in the Olympic Stadium had an "audience kit" containing props to be used to create card-trick-like effects on television. The kit included the white ponchos, which most people put on before the ceremony began, as much for warmth as for team spirit; a red seat cushion with a Torino 2006 logo in white; and a red plastic flash light, to be wielded like a cigarette lighter at a rock concert. The kit itself was even a prop ? a metallic bag that could be held up to create a blinding effect. In case any audience member didn...