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...convention was a hundred Fourth of July parades rolled into one, a pageant of family values and up-by-the-bootstraps success stories and patriotism, with silver confetti falling from the sky like diamonds and 60,000 balloons blown up by volunteers. Delegates heard The Star-Spangled Banner sung so often by stars like Aretha Franklin and Marilyn Horne that they may actually know all the words by now. The whole thing was as Republican as a capital-gains-tax cut, threatening to become at times as maudlin as Nixon's Checkers speech and as corny as Reagan's Morning...
Some of the personalities and achievements singled out in the following pages will prove to be stars who shine only to be eclipsed, records that stand only to be broken. Many others will soon be swept into history's Dumpsters, as used up as New Year's confetti. A few -- we can't know which -- will turn out to matter, and to last. Whether by typifying 1991 or by transcending it, whether by embodying some great theme of the day or by quietly capturing the everyday, they will reverberate as long as, maybe longer than, the dramatic headlines now shouting...
...night began with the entrance of a pink-clad ballerina scattering confetti. Various Ig Nobel dignitaries followed, holding placards proclaiming, "Save the Rat," "Recovering Mathematician," and "The 2nd Point of Light." The dignitaries paid homage to the King and Queen of Swedish Meatballs, and watched the Sacred Torch Bearer enter and disappear...
Even in the Ivy League, fans can be nutty. Princeton fans fill the arena when Kit Mueller and Company take the court. Penn fans throw confetti on the court after the Quakers score their first basket...
Eager for the results, the crowd begins to chant, "NO MORE POLLS! NO MORE POLLS!" At 3:17, Pierce supporters begin to hand out confetti. The sound of the gavel banging against the podium resounds throughout the convention hall. The chair begins to speak...