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...soon as Thorpe walked onto the pool deck Sept. 16, it was like Phil Spector orchestrating thousands of paparazzi: a thunderous wall of sound combined with a dazzle of camera flashes. The 17,500-seat stadium rocked to the chants of "Thor-pee, Thor-pee, Thor-pee" as swimming-crazy Australian fans anticipated the showdown between their country and the world's top swimming team, the U.S. "Until tonight I hadn't got the Olympic buzz, the true spirit," said Thorpe. "But it was as if the gladiators had walked into the Colosseum. When I walked out I was ready...
...They grew grains and vegetables during the short summer but depended mostly on livestock--cattle, goats, sheep and pigs. They weren't Christian until the late 10th century, yet they were not irreligious. Like the ancient Greeks and Romans, they worshiped a pantheon of deities, three of whom--Odin, Thor and Freya--we recall every week, as Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were named after them. (Other Norse words that endure in modern English: berserk and starboard...
...Raft used by Thor Heyerdahl to support his theory that pre-Incan peoples reached South Pacific islands...
...song performed by Lisa Kudrow (as Phoebe Buffay), bolstered by the vocals of The Pretenders. The song in itself emanates hilarity, but is an odd addition to a collection of teen rock. The album concludes with a performance of "I'll Be There for You" by rapper thor-el, by far the most out-of-place track on the album. All in all, a bad combination--songs that mostly sound alike and a few oddballs that stick out like a pair of sore thumbs...
...last week when Thor Axel Kappfjell, 32, known by the oxymoron Human Fly, leaped from a 3,300-ft. cliff in his native Norway in a fog, was flung back by an ill wind onto the cliff's face and was killed. His death came 15 years after that of Carl Boenish, one of four people who invented BASE jumping in 1980; Boenish also died in a leap from a Norwegian cliff. Before one begins to hatch a Scandinavian-unhappiness theory to explain all this, it should be pointed out that BASE jumpers have died all over the world...