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...bulldozers smash ahead, one 70-ft. okoume tree after another trembles, then teeters and finally topples. With each fall, the jungle itself seems to shiver: venomous black and green mambas slither to safety through walls of vines; gorillas caper away in terror; mauve, violet and golden butterflies settle like confetti on the dozers, or bulls, as the workers call them. Finally, as dusk settles in, a single tree remains in the clearing, a majestic 120-ft. hardwood. Their 450-h.p. engines screaming, shrouded in black smoke, the monsters of steel advance. Bleeding at the trunk, mortally wounded, the century...
...wedding industry in his native island: the countless gaudy outfits thrown on and off for the wedding portrait, the banquet dinner that could fill the hangar of an aircraft carrier. Chang's perceptive photos showed the ordinary, exhausted people buried beneath the heavy makeup, the costumes, the confetti, the expectations. In his newest book Double Happiness, Chang digs deeper, documenting the made-to-order marriages of Taiwan men and their Vietnamese brides?virtual strangers until the day they...
Always an adventurer, Dmitri Nabokov ’55 accelerated out of Harvard Yard on Commencement Day 50 years ago to embark upon a career studded with a colorful confetti of activity...
Harvard coach Peter Brand, who met a flurry of confetti after the day’s bouts, extolled his team’s resolve...
...visibly gracious Thompson congratulated Holmes as confetti fell from the studio ceiling...