Word: confetti
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...timers claim that Class Days since the Twenties have been enervated versions of the zany days when casks of "refreshing liquid" were available to the weary and footsore in the Yard and confetti wars raged in Soldiers Field...
Most of the pictures on the walls looked like more or less distorted reflections of each other. Jackson Pollock's nonobjective snarl of tar and confetti, entitled No. 14, was matched by Willem DeKooning's equally fashionable and equally blank tangle of tar and snow called Attic. If their sort of painting represented the most vital force in contemporary U.S. art, as some critics had contended...
Leonard Bernstein '39 came back to Harvard last Tuesday. In the scant ten years since his graduation, Bernstein has had many handfuls of musical confetti flung upon him: two symphonies, two ballets, a Broadway musical, and the official blessing of Dr. Serge Koussevitzky. Now he is rising in the field of conducting, and Tuesday's concert added to his already brilliant record in a not unenviable post as guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
Solemn Promise. Then the blow fell. The confetti had scarcely been swept up when a solemn statement rang out from the chancery office of the Catholic archdiocese of New York. "Newspapers, in describing the marriage . . .," the statement said, "have mentioned a second marriage ceremony . . . Both parties solemnly promised in writing that there would be only the Catholic ceremony . . . Therefore, the Catholic party automatically incurred excommunication...
Lautrec, an ugly and aristocratic dwarf descended from France's powerful medieval Counts of Toulouse, had drifted among the confetti and champagne of Montmartre at its brightest, wandering in & out of bars, dance halls, brothels, sketching satchel-eyed lechers in boiled shirts and top hats, provocative cocottes in billowing pantalettes and immense bonnets. On his advertisements for nightclubs, books, magazines and plays, Lautrec had portrayed his disreputable and talented cronies with the subtlety of a Japanese print backed by the dash and action of a circus broadside...