Word: lipping
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...kind of state-sanctioned drivel that many foreigners imagine Chinese media to be filled with. Even during the sensitive Olympics period, the press asserted itself where it could. There was no talk of human rights, but Chinese journalists reported on everything from Beijing's traffic woes to lip-synching in the opening ceremony, exposing imperfections that officials tried to conceal...
JUNE 13 A lip-synching Amber Lee Ettinger--a.k.a. Obama Girl--goes on YouTube to declare the most famous crush in modern political history...
...complexioned son of two black parents who lived his life passing as a white man. "He wanted to be a writer," Gates explained, but "he did not want to be a Negro writer. It is a crass disjunction, but it is not his crassness or his disjunction ... We give lip service to the idea of the writer who happens to be black, but had anyone, in the postwar era, ever seen such a thing...
...They did this because they don't want us to come back," said Iosif Zadashvili, a resident of Kurta, which lies off the main road. The white-haired man sat dazed in the Georgian town of Gori on a chair made for a child, his lower lip trembling, as he related how Russian soldiers had stood by while Ossetian irregulars beat him in the courtyard of his home, knocking out all of his lower front teeth...
...ivory tower or a monastery, or, I am sure, to your lordship, to learn that quite a lot of people, men and women, have a fascinated interest in this sort of thing." On this island where manners mean everything, one takes one's whipping with a stiff upper lip - and one never says sorry...