Word: confetti
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...Franco Corelli as Mario. In the poignant Vissi d'Arte aria, Callas relied almost wholly on dramatic rather than vocal brilliance to carry her through-which, in her case, is admittedly a compelling compromise. The audience certainly thought so. At the curtain, a shower of roses and confetti rained down from the galleries, and the house bravoed on for half an hour of curtain calls...
...festive day in Ecuador last September when Charles de Gaulle swooped into Quito to begin a 25-hour state visit, the third stop on his ten-nation tour of Latin America. Enthusiastic crowds thronged the roads, jammed the balconies, and clambered on rooftops to shower the French leader with confetti and cries of "Viva De Gaulle...
...stone-deaf freaks, but I'm not knocking it." He doesn't knock anything, in fact, that might lure people into a nightclub. Last year, to add a little "carnival excitement," he hired two Afro-Cuban dancers who cavorted about the stage showering the audience with confetti. Such tactics, scorned by jazz purists, bring Mann a $50,000 yearly income...
Their lines lash, writhe and slither like snakes conjured out of enchanted paint pots. Their color is alive with serpentine swirls, and beneath the agitated surface can be glimpsed figures festooned like confetti-draped masqueraders. Not French, though living in Paris, and not American, for all the superficial resemblances to U.S. abstract expressionism, the artists are known by the acronym COBRA, derived from the first letters of the capital cities of their birth: Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam (see color...
...Lisbon really cares. From the Indian Ocean port of Lourenço Marques (where he reviewed 5,000 troops and 200 Alsatian, Doberman, boxer and Labrador guard dogs) to the villages of the Limpopo River Valley, the sprightly, 69-year-old President met with rousing receptions and blizzards of confetti. But for all the outward signs of welcome, Tomás was taking no chances. "One bullet for the President now will be worth 25,000 later." was the terrorist slogan, and Tomas was accompanied everywhere by 58 security cops armed with machine pistols. Last week, as the President cruised...