Word: ballooned
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...Mylar. It's done by a crew of about 110 volunteers perched on roofs and setbacks of seven buildings from 43rd to 48th Streets. They work under the guidance of confetti master Treb Heining, the Newport Beach, Calif., balloonatic whose company, Treb, Inc., is the go-to outfit for balloon effusions at the Republican National Conventions. Since 1991 Treb has coordinated the confetti fete for the Times Square Alliance, the business association in charge of the big show...
...damned if you don’t. 6. Pants under dresses: See Rebecca M. Harrington’s column. 7. Leopard print: Your Tarzan fetish is better left in the private sphere. 8. Knit dresses: There is never an excuse to wear a sock as a dress. Never. 9. Balloon skirts: It always looks as if your skirt is tucked in your panties. 10. Harvard Class of 2010 t-shirt: Enough said. —Emily G. W. Chau ’08 is outgoing Arts Monday editor and incoming Campus Arts editor. She, unlike KMM, actually does love...
...pillars were disgraced with “Beat Harvard” spelled out in blue paint. The removal was costly, and the Elis won (boo), but the perpetrators were slapped with a suspension. 1982: MIT’s Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity rigged a large black weather balloon to emerge out of the field’s 45-yard line during the second quarter of the game. Affectionately named “The Blob,” said balloon was emblazoned with the school’s name. “MIT 1, Harvard-Yale 0,” read...
...deceased linked to their MySpace.com profile. Because MySpace.com is most popular amongst people college-aged and younger, the deaths are usually tragic (suicides, automobile accidents, and murders) or completely abnormal (a kid killed by a rare cancer, two teens found dead with their heads inside an 8-foot helium balloon). According to the site’s founder, Mike Patterson, there are more than a thousand deceased listed. “It’s supposed to be an eye opening experience,” Patterson says. “You’re supposed to be shocked by what...
...serialized in 1970.) The design of Tezuka's pages endlessly varies in shape and flow to reflect the action of a sequence or a character's state of mind. He never shies away from crazy experimentation, as when one panel uses a distorted photograph in a character's word balloon to emphasize the stress of the moment...