Word: confetti
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...were suddenly snapping awake to such Wolfean fare as "Oh, Rotten Gotham -Sliding Down Into the Behavioral Sink," "Natalie Wood and the Shockkkkkk of Recognition" and "Muvva Earth and Codpiece Pants." The prose itself rollicked with words like "lollygagging" and "infarcted," embedded in pages that were covered with a confetti of punctuation marks...
...dollar as the world's primary currency for international trading and holdings of national reserves. But the U.S. has printed so much money to cover federal budget deficits, and has run such big balance of payments deficits, that as many as $700 billion in greenbacks are swirling like confetti through the money markets of Europe and the Far East...
Wherever he went, the Pope was greeted with showers of confetti, fireworks, floating balloons, flocks of white doves and plenty of overzealous rhetoric. In Puebla, an excited priest, warming up the gigantic crowd assembled at a soccer field, referred to the Pope as "John the Baptist, Christ in the flesh, and the new Moses." Near Oaxaca, in the heart of Mexico's largest concentration of traditional Indian culture, John Paul sat atop a massive dais as women performed a stately dance and men wearing giant white clown masks stomped about. Everywhere, street peddlers hawked papal photos or T shirts...
Arms flung wide, blowing kisses like confetti, Donna sashays around the stage in glittering costumes, exhorting the audience ("You are beautiful"), joshing the band, trading a little prefabricated bitchiness with her backup singers who undulate at sharp angles like clockwork Nefertitis when Donna wraps herself around a lyric. "I do not consider myself a disco artist," Donna insists, against all contrary evidence. "I consider myself a singer who does disco songs. What I like to do is expose my market to other parts of music...
...anyone can beat those odds, it may be Kahn. In just 16 months at the CAB, he shredded red tape into confetti, largely deregulated the nation's airlines and restored healthy competition along with lower fares. Economist Kahn is such an impassioned deregulator that he promoted the liquidation of his own empire. He supported a bill that will weaken the powers of the CAB and phase it out of existence by 1985. Said he: "I will consider myself a success in this job if there is no job when I leave...