Outside the Games Venues, the Real Show Goes On From: The Washington Post | Date: July 24, 1996| Author: William Booth | Copyright 1996 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Beyond the clean, well-lit confines of the TV screen the Olympics are a chaotic, democratic mess, where bomb-sniffing dogs, Andean musicians and muttering scalpers mix with giggling little girls splashing in the Olympic fountain and real residents keep going, amazingly, to work.

This is a city filled with many moments of authenticity and grace, colliding into spasms of disorder and greed.

This is by far the largest Games ever. And the strains are clearly showing as Atlan...

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