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It was a ceremony seemingly made in heaven, featuring spacemen, flocks of doves, a dreamy, flutter-by of fairies and fireworks - thousands of fireworks.
In 50 fleeting minutes, rich in colour and choreography, they dramatically showcased more than five millenia of Chinese history for 91,000 spectators and an estimated television audience of 4 billion. Even "lao tian ye", the heavenly grandfathers earlier invoked by Wang Wei, secretary-general of the BOCOG organisers, looked kindly on the event, withholding bad weather.
Though the air-quality index still hovered in the "moderate" mid-90s, the city was still a riot of hazy grey, and the national stadium dripped with heat and humidity, visibility in the Bird's Nest was fine and the forecast light showers held off.
The numbers alone, as befitted the world's most populous nation, were breathtaking: 19,000 rounds of fireworks, 15,000 different types of costume, 9000 performing members of the People's Liberation Army, 3000 "scholar disciples" of Confucius.
It was a difficult, possibly a prohibitively expensive, act for London, the next Olympic host city, to follow in four years.
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发表于 2008-8-9 10:51
发表于 2008-8-9 10:52