Word: pyromaniac
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...Major Michael Parker, 33, an antiques dealer and reserve officer, who says lightly: "I like burning things. I am a pyromaniac." Parker is the man directly in charge of what he says will be "the largest firework display in 250 years," a figure that roughly but deliberately recalls the pyrotechnic extravagance that celebrated the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1749. It was for that occasion that Handel composed his Music for the Royal Fireworks, which will also accompany the meteor shower of bombshells, flash reports, bombettes, pirouettes, Catherine wheels, saucissons, serpents and good old-fashioned detonations over Hyde Park...