Word: confetti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pamphlets, so that every citizen could benefit from Sedaris' uncanny insight into our times. Those weird, brilliant little vignettes should be sold separately at 25 cents a pop at check-out counters and newsstands, to be read on coffee bread, or the subway, in the dentist's office. Like confetti, Sedaris' bizarre creations would litter the mean streets of our cities. Several of these stories would be at least as popular as was common Sense in its day, and we would all be better...
...more like an electronic post office designed by a madman. In Baran's scheme, each message was cut into tiny strips and stuffed into electronic envelopes, called packets, each marked with the address of the sender and the intended receiver. The packets were then released like so much confetti into the web of interconnected computers, where they were tossed back and forth over high-speed wires in the general direction of their destination and reassembled when they finally got there. If any packets were missing or mangled (and it was assumed that some would be), it was no big deal...
...predictability about it and a kind of melodrama and bathetic response that was required that could be avoided really in short stories. What we did was to publish it always as a paperback original...Our idea was to write quickly and have it have all the excitement of confetti; it shouldn't be some belabored work. A short story is something that does cut into and out of a subject matter that is very serious, like at odd angles. There's a way of sort of breaking through the carapace of expectations...
...twister roared through it. The storm, unleashing winds of more than 200 m.p.h., tossed one trailer 150 yds., wrapped another's heavy steel frame around a tree trunk like a coat hanger, lodged an empty refrigerator high in a pine tree and left the forest strung with the sad confetti of broken lives: blankets, clothes and magazines. Said one Vietnam vet as he surveyed the site: "This looks like Hamburger Hill...
...JOYOUS HOMECOMING FOR THIS SUMMER'S LITtle League World Champions turned sour even before the last shred of confetti hit the ground. Local sports columnists claimed that as many as half the players on the team from Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines were over the 12-year age limit (or 13 if the player's birthday is after Aug. 1). Little League officials in Manila stonewalled efforts to certify the players' ages, and most of the Philippine press and public seemed to view the accusations as an American plot...