Word: confetti
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Even before the confetti had been swept away Saturday night, the New Orleans mayoral race was starting to look like it had been just an elaborate, expensive distraction from more pressing matters at hand. After months of debates, candidate forums and campaign advertisements, conditions in the hurricane-ravaged city are not much different from when the race began...
...roiling silver sheet) to make war against Sauron's legions. In the Mountains of Moria, Gandalf battles the enormous Balrog (an Erector-set confection with steaming orange eyes) as the sound effects roar and a strong wind gusts from the stage, spraying the audience with a blizzard of black confetti. As for Frodo, he not only lives, he also sings in the new version of The Lord of the Rings, opening this week at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto...
...they doing, you know, the rest of the game? Generally—at least from where the rest of us are sitting—nothing. Nothing we’re remotely interested in anyway. I mean, it’s great that they’re tossing homemade confetti in the air and in our faces in the fourth quarter and all, but that doesn’t really do it for most...
...pieces of pottery across the area. But just below the churned surface, in some places just five centimeters from the bulldozer's tracks, the finds started. When these people were buried, their graves lay near the shoreline of a beach, and the area is still littered with a ghostly confetti of coral and shell. Since then, earthquakes have pushed the shore about 800 m away, and the burial ground is now on private land used in recent times for cattle grazing, surrounded by a green tide of dense bush, vine and coconut palms. Some time later a village, now vanished...
...most taken by the smiles of the multiethnic brides at the Marylebone Register Office. Different groups of celebrants cross paths on the front steps of the building, and what seems most relevant today is that here, families from a great diversity of national and religious backgrounds unite to throw confetti and celebrate their lives—lives which continue even after one of the darkest shocks London has recently known...