/tags/ceremonies/ Recent bookmarks tagged #ceremonies Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:24:54 +0000 http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/12/oly.kids/index.html "Games organizers confirm that Lin Miaoke, who performed "Ode to the Motherland" as China's flag was paraded Friday into Beijing's National Stadium, was not singing at all. ... Lin was lip-syncing to the sound of another girl, 7-year-old Yang Peiyi, who was heard but not seen, apparently because she was deemed not cute enough. ... "The reason was for the national interest," said Chen Qigang, the ceremony's musical director, in a state radio interview. "The child on camera should be flawless in image, internal feeling and expression. ... Lin Miaoke is excellent in those aspects.""<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #ceremonies #china #cnn #fake #lipsyncing #olympics</p> Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:30:18 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:11201 ceremonies china cnn fake lipsyncing olympics http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/09/13/social_scripts.html "I just want to be able to relax into a script every once in a while, even if that script can be annoying at times. It's not that I want the scripts to be rigid, but I want conscious engagement with and modification of the scripts rather than an outright<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #ceremonies #culture #funerals #rituals #social #socialscripts #tradition</p> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 05:25:26 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:9615 ceremonies culture funerals rituals social socialscripts tradition