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...centerpiece of its centennial winter carnival, St. Paul has a neogothic ice palace twelve stories tall. And with its Mardi Gras celebrations as a happy pretext, downtown Galveston has seven exotic ceremonial arches designed by a remarkable group of architects. The ice palace and the arches were both finished last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Form Follows Fantasy | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...anticipation of their favorite part of the show, his seventh-inning sing-along. Outfielder Gary Matthews can verify that the Cubs' appeal extends at least to Belize, a Central American country of 150,000, which receives the cable and recently requested a live float ornament for its Cub Mardi Gras. "Only the Pope drew better," Matthews returned to report grandly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ten Hits in One Day! | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...reset button and start again: in Mamou, in Evangeline Parish, in Louisiana's Cajun country, they celebrated Mardi Gras last week on horseback, on the dance floor and belly up in the ditches. The celebration lacked the formality and the aristocracy, whatever that is, of the carnival in New Orleans, but it may have surpassed the Crescent City in madness (you may have the hang of it here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: a Mad, Mad Mardi Gras | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...years nothing much changes in Mamou. The boys in this culture are expected to mature into good providers and two-fisted drinkers, and the girls are expected to marry and swap obsequiousness for fidelity and adulation. The blacks are expected to know their place. (The night before Mardi Gras six or seven blacks fought it out with a throng of whites in the middle of town, and as the fists and beer cans flew, the police, including some black officers, had a rough time containing things. Nonetheless, when it was over, no guns had been drawn, no arrests had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: a Mad, Mad Mardi Gras | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...lawyer, one of the men who would stay sober and supervise, made his comments the night before Mardi Gras. He said the route had to be kept secret. "If you let everybody know where the route is, they might leave home. After all, 150 horses are fairly traumatic on a lawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: a Mad, Mad Mardi Gras | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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