Word: program
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...most telling moments came when, in a break in the action before the start of the main program, the people in the stadium began doing a spirited wave. It was totally spontaneous and unscripted. Millions upon millions had been spent carefully - and brilliantly - choreographing the evening - and the crowd decides to take things in their own hands and entertain themselves with the wave. Forget all the stuffed suits at the IOC, forget all the obnoxious corporate sponsors with their tour guides, forget all the phony, exaggerated drama the TV people promote. The Australians are taking control of the games...
...When we got here, one of the first things my father did was enroll me with the Team Santa Monica swim club," Krayzelburg says. "It was a good program, but it was too far away. We didn't own a car, so I had to take a bus for 45 minutes and then walk eight blocks. I was going to school, I was working an after-school job to help out the family, I was studying English. It was all too much." Lenny wanted to quit the sport. Oleg wouldn't listen. Swimming was important. Why had Oleg packed five...
...answer was the Westside Jewish Community Center. It had an old 25-yard pool, far from Olympic standards, but it was close to where the Krayzelburgs were living. It had a swim team, though not a serious training program. Lenny could practice on his own, compete with the team. There was no swim team at his high school, Fairfax, a basketball factory that had sent Chris Mills and Sean Higgins toward NBA careers, so the Westside JCC became Lenny's sole base for swimming. He even wound up with a lifeguard job there, so he was at the center...
...help steal some of that thunder, the former advertising man is starting cultural proceedings a month early, and making the program as loud and large-scale as possible. If Mahler's choral Symphony No. 8 for a thousand voices at the SuperDome on Aug. 19 doesn't get attention, nothing will. "It will celebrate both things," says Schofield. "The merger of sport...
...Orchard, director of the Loeb Drama Center and the managing director of the ART, said the ART was contacted by Carr to "help program the space from a theatrical point of view," Orchard said...