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Those who carped, indeed, about the $130 limited-edition mini-Coke bottles and the Elvis-imitator congestion of Atlanta's streets could have found the Games in lowercase by wandering farther afield to the outlying venues. All around the lesser sports, the air was thick with suntan oil as children played in wading pools and teams of volunteers cleared courts to the demonic sounds of Jerry Lee Lewis singing Great Balls of Fire. In Savannah, Georgia, where yachting was staged, a media-transport coordinator consisted of a man in a deck chair on an empty sidewalk. In Atlanta Beach, only...
...horror. Private vessels are first to rush toward the site through the Moriches Inlet, which opens to the ocean. Zodiacs from the Coast Guard station follow. Cutters come soon after. Emergency vehicles make a long, undulating necklace of light on the roads leading to town. The air is thick with police sirens and slow, mournful fire alarms. Everyone turns on the news...
...sedate, always beach-like feeling of being baked is a summer staple. Floating through air that's almost thick enough to hold you is, to be truthful, something of a fine feeling...
...camera and hurtles down the street as store detectives chase after him, Iggy Pop's Lust for Life hammers the sound track, and Renton delivers his "Choose life" speech--the film is a nonstop visual and aural assault. Slo-mo, fast-mo, a hallucinogenic editing pace and the thick music of Scottish accents mean that you'll have to cram for Trainspotting. Attention must be paid, and will be rewarded with the scabrous savor of the movie's lightning intelligence. The subject is heroin, but the style is speed. This film is an upper--a jolt of pure movie energy...
There is still hope that archaeologists can solve this mystery, as well as dozens of other unanswered questions about the Olmec. Most of the sites have barely been studied, and with good reason. Annual floods smother the land with thick layers of silt that dry into impenetrable clay. What's more, says Diehl, "about 80% of the entire Olmec territory in southern Mexico has been converted in the past 20 years from jungle to cow pastures and sugar-cane fields. There's so much vegetation on the surface that you can't just pick up pottery. Generally...