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...that their diapers give off rainbows (a Phyllis Diller line she loves to steal). Or about her husband, the football watcher, who sits in front of the tube "like a dead sponge surrounded by bottle caps" until "the sound of his deep, labored breathing puts the cork on another confetti-filled evening." About her schoolboy son who flunked lunch. About her washing machine, which eats one sock in every pair; her kids ask where the lost ones go, and she tells them that they go to live with Jesus. About how, when one kid ate an unknown quantity of fruit...
Tens of thousands of Filipinos wildly cheered and showered confetti on some 2,500 joggers as they arrived in Manila last week. The joggers, led by Agapito Aquino, 45, younger brother of murdered Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino Jr., had set out five days earlier on a 90-mile protest run from Aquino's birthplace in the town of Concepcion in Tarlac province to the tarmac at Manila International Airport, where Aquino was assassinated last August. They were protesting a referendum called by President Ferdinand Marcos for Jan. 27 to ratify a constitutional amendment on the presidential succession. Along...
...Cindy knew every slope in Europe, says McKinney. "Her absence has hit us all pretty hard." The team's usual manner is joking and sometimes even throwing confetti. "The Europeans used to laugh at our crazy spirit," Cooper says, "but now that we've started winning, it drives them up a wall...
...procession of limousines bring British Vivien Leigh (in tears as thousands welcomed her "back home"), Clark Gable, his wife Carole Lombard, Producer David O. Selznick, Laurence Olivier and others from the airport. Crowds larger than the combined armies that fought at Atlanta in July 1864 waved Confederate flags, tossed confetti till it seemed to be snowing, gave three different versions of the Rebel yell, whistled, cheered, goggled. Highest point in the high jinks was a Gone With the Wind costume ball night before the premiere, attended by 6,000 celebrants, movie stars and executives galore. One girl looked at Gable...
...distinctly low-budget affair. Gone were the sleek limousines that had carried dignitaries to past ceremonies, the flower petals carpeting the streets and the thousands of peasant farmers bused into the capital at public expense. Instead the guests pulled up in ordinary black sedans, the streets were strewn with confetti rather than flowers, and masses of campesinos stayed home. A cartoon in the daily Excelsior said it all. Spoofing traditional views of the head of state astride his noble steed, the newspaper showed De la Madrid jumping on a horse's skeleton...