Word: torched
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...time, there was no way of knowing the significance of the final leg of the torch run at the opening ceremony for the Atlanta Olympics. It was simply nice that the leg began with Atlanta native and former Olympic boxer Evander Holyfield running in the tunnel beneath the stadium, with his own smile as a beacon, and ended with the lighting of the torch by Muhammad...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "This election is about making sure that the world our children and grandchildren inherit from us is a world with all of the opportunity and freedom that they deserve. I want to pass them a torch that is still burning...
What's the answer? The torch must be passed to a new generation of metaphors, fresh enough to tempt the disengaged electorate to pay some attention to the political discourse. This means nothing--absolutely nothing--from the strip-mined hills of baseball, football, basketball, boxing and gambling. We must turn elsewhere...
...friends since the early 1970s, first around Boston, where she was a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, then in the lofts and hangouts of New York City's Lower East Side. When she joined her slides to a sound track of French torch songs, gloom pop and Kurt Weill--music where the balance between real and false pathos was always shifting--the whole thing took on a desolate wit. Here were some buzz-cut kids cocked for trouble. There was a woman sorting herself out in a washroom mirror. Here was another rumpled bed, with...
...your coverage of the Atlanta Olympics, you failed to mention the in-your-face commercialism that abounded there (heck, the Olympic torch was burning out of a stylized McDonald's French fries carton). The opening ceremonies with pickup trucks and a good-ole-boy theme and the U.S.'s win-at-any-cost attitude all combined to make what was supposed to be the Centennial Olympics a joke. LUIGI PALAZZINI St. Leonard, Canada...