Word: olympias
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...W.O.D. chuckled. "Son, try and peer around the corner just a little harder. Suppose Mr. Bush names a Clarence Thomas type. Can he get him confirmed? With 49 or 50 Democrats, and Republicans like Jim Jeffords and Olympia Snowe and those other moderates? All that'll do is fire up our base. In fact, pray he does name a fire breather. He loses in the Senate, and we get, oh, maybe $20 million or so for the next election...
...disorders to explain people who vary from the norm that it's insane. People are more than just chemical reactions, and we do not all need to be clones of the same prototype. I applaud the Lipscombs for doing the best they can and striving for better. CAROLYN SUAREZ Olympia, Wash...
...hoping for some crossover curiosity. As maestro of the Olympic Arts Festival, which opens this week, he has brought some 4,000 artists from around the globe to compete for attention over the next six weeks. In founding the modern Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin sought to recreate ancient Olympia, when "letters and the arts were always harmoniously combined with sport." But after his Pentathlon of the Muses was abandoned in 1948, Olympic arts have often been sidelined by sport. "Whatever festival you mount, it will only ever be a pendant event to what is, after all, the biggest festival...
Hard, for example, to imagine Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull putting on this week's Ladyfest, Olympia's six-day festival of female bands, artists and speakers, open to both sexes. Workshops range from guitar lessons to basic auto mechanics, "girls only." Besides Sleater-Kinney, other nationally known Olympia acts performing include Bangs (a blissful marriage of the Go-Gos and the Ramones), the Need, and the Gossip. The bands from out of town are also formidable (Cat Power, the Rondelles, Bratmobile), but it's no coincidence that it's happening here...
...Olympia's rock scene used to be Seattle's unpopular sister, sequestered in a state capital of 40,000 with a Norman Rockwellish downtown specializing in hiking gear and Italian sodas, and a local college, Evergreen, that is one of America's most left-wing and unconventional fonts of higher learning. While Seattle's bands headbanged on MTV in the alternative-rock heyday of the early '90s, Olympia was locked in her bedroom reading postmodern gender theory and writing songs on her eight-track for college-radio cognoscenti. Now that Seattle's grunge empire has been sacked and burned...