Word: opera
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...Then what? Well, the torch came to town. Over months, it had wound its way from Australia's most ancient icon, that sandstone monolith known as Uluru - it used to be called Ayers Rock - to its most modern, the Opera House here in Sydney. On the afternoon it was going to arrive at the harbor, I was walking around at Circular Quay. Two Aboriginal homeless people had already taken up positions on a bench. They were sitting in the shadow of this immense ocean liner out of Nassau called the Crystal Harmony, a big boat full of titans with tickets...
...having never staged a Games, Sydney was, like all the other first-time hosts, wondering where its visitors were on the eve of the big cauldron-lighting. Hotel rooms were vacant, seats were unused at the opera, street prices were dropping for ping-pong prelims, angst was rising. "Some now claim we never should've done it," said the clerk at Gowings as he brushed my new Akubra bushman's hat. (You'll like it, honey. Really.) "Bloody 'ell," he said, "the sports 'aven't even begun! Look around; it's already been great for the country. Those...
Prejean said a Terence McNally-directed opera of Dead Man Walking in San Francisco is in the works, as well as a series of nationwide dramatic productions of her work led by Tim Robbins...
Australia was clearly thrilled to be showing off like this. Sydney had been buffed to a gleam for the Games, and a sparkling late-winter sun shone all week. The Today show set up by the opera house to catch sunrises on the harbor and sunsets behind the bridge. Restaurants and hotels filled, athletes sprouted in multicolored warm-up suits, photo ops clogged the botanical gardens. The sunny phrase "no worries," a curious affirmation against doomfulness, was heard over and over, as was a new quintessentially Australian sentiment: " 'Ey, all we 'ave to do is beat Atlanta! Not a very...
...like Adam Carrington on Dynasty, Star went prodigal. He struck out on his own, becoming a critical hit with Sex and the City, which classed up the Spelling formula: lusty stories of beautiful people--this time with brains. Now, in true soap-opera fashion, he has returned with a new series (cue ominous music) that has shaken the Spelling empire to its very foundations...