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...Thursday morning the early light is wrapped in haze, the grass is wet, the half-risen sun casts great splotches of shadows on the front lawns. It is going to be a scorcher. The traffic, bemoaned by the woman on Atlantic Avenue, redoubles by the hour. Official cars flash red and white headlights and roll through...
...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...
...James II, at the Battle of the Boyne. The victory established England's Protestant ascendancy in Ireland, and it was in memory of this event that 1,300 Orangemen had gathered in Portadown. The town's Catholic minority, however, regard these marches as provocative. Drumcree church has become a flash point because the Orangemen's route takes them along a stretch of Garvaghy Road, where the majority of residents are Catholic. Thus on July 7 police ordered the march to be rerouted...
...this technique were not enough to squelch narrative interest in her people, Proulx often introduces parenthetical flash-forwards detailing the ways in which her characters will die: "(Some year or two later, Snakes, using a climbing rope with a single core in a color pattern of purple, neon pink, teal and fluorescent yellow, hung himself in the cab of his truck. A note on the seat read, 'I'm not going to wear glasses.')" The emphasis in this passage pervades the entire novel: things survive and are worth careful descriptions, while people are passing fancies. That could have been conveyed...