Dazzling ceremony reveals China's world dream

[Guest]

BEIJING (Reuters) - Resurgent China opened the Olympics on Friday with volleys of fireworks at a spectacular ceremony that wove ancient Chinese history with modern wizardry and aimed to draw a line under months of political controversy.

Drums thundered, firecrackers exploded and 14,000 performers flowed through the Bird's Nest stadium in a dazzling extravaganza that presented a benign image of China and offered up a vision of global harmony echoing the Games' motto "One World One Dream".


http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...11093420080808

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Re: Dazzling ceremony reveals China's world dream

It was spectacular. I watched the 90 minutes of the ceremony but not the parades. One extremely interesting thing was the mark of the east on their foreheads of 2008 drummers.

[Guest]

Re: Dazzling ceremony reveals China's world dream

Reminds me of the massive May Day parades in Red Square ..........

[Guest]

Re: Dazzling ceremony reveals China's world dream

Regardless, it was the best I've ever seen. As Bob Costas said, "As far as opening ceremonies go, you can retire the trophy".

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