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July 27, 2012

21:20 • 10 months ago

Tags: new york times olympics lede of the week ledes nytimes united kingdom london unexplainable 129 • Permalink

"With its hilariously quirky Olympic opening ceremony, a wild jumble of the celebratory and the fanciful; the conventional and the eccentric; and the frankly off-the-wall, Britain presented itself to the world Friday night as something it has often struggled to express even to itself: a nation secure in its own post-empire identity, whatever that actually is."

The NYT’s epic lede about the Olympics spectacle put on by the United Kingdom tonight, clearly written by someone who has no idea how to explain what in the heck they just saw.

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