Volume 47, Number 17 · November 2, 2000
The Lost Olympics
By Mark Danner
Few of our predilections seem more distinctly modern than the compulsion to name 'our era' and thereby claim it. Last month, gazing upon the vast concoction of sports, commercials, and entertainment that NBC presented to them as the XXIV Olympic Games, Americans saw the Information Age give way to the Age of 'Content'—and they found themselves decidedly displeased.
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