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...the big thrill of the Olympic Opening ceremony is correctly guessing what form of the word "open" the President of Russia would use. ;o)
The gaudy US coats weren't as bad as I feared they would be. Bermuda's shorts were by far the most ridiculous uniform of the evening. Save 'em for the summer guys.
I got most of the allusions in the performance part of the program. The US announcer (NBC) was a plainly lost. But over all the show was kind of a bland and it wasn't that big a deal. The projection system was very interesting, but probably could have been used to even better affect with someone else charge of the art. The symbolic end of the Soviet era with the balloon drifting away was another geeky moment when fans of Anna Akhmatova's poetry might gleefully have cried out "But it's red!" (Akhmatova was in-and-out of favor her whole life during the Soviet period. The unintended reference in the program was to a bitterly feminist poem in which a balloon drifts out of reach through the disappointments of a young woman's life. The last line reading, "But it's blue." The joke being the blue (New Russian) ball stayed behind with the generally happy girl in the program as the red (Soviet) balloon drifted away.)
The gaudy US coats weren't as bad as I feared they would be. Bermuda's shorts were by far the most ridiculous uniform of the evening. Save 'em for the summer guys.
I got most of the allusions in the performance part of the program. The US announcer (NBC) was a plainly lost. But over all the show was kind of a bland and it wasn't that big a deal. The projection system was very interesting, but probably could have been used to even better affect with someone else charge of the art. The symbolic end of the Soviet era with the balloon drifting away was another geeky moment when fans of Anna Akhmatova's poetry might gleefully have cried out "But it's red!" (Akhmatova was in-and-out of favor her whole life during the Soviet period. The unintended reference in the program was to a bitterly feminist poem in which a balloon drifts out of reach through the disappointments of a young woman's life. The last line reading, "But it's blue." The joke being the blue (New Russian) ball stayed behind with the generally happy girl in the program as the red (Soviet) balloon drifted away.)
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I really like her poetry so much.
Also interesting that they didn't have a giant inflatable body of Lenin or Stalin floating around. All the interesting moments of history that were left out...
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Yes, I think they were trying to take a middle road between the admirers and the haters of the past regimes, which ended up being very bland.
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