Word: midnighters
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...midnight stroke at your New Year's Eve party, between champagne swigs and kisses, you might have glanced at the TV image of Times Square: a million people celebrating in a neon-illuminated swirl of confetti, as if God had sent a pretty blizzard right...
...captain, Treb says, "You will be instructed in how to fluff confetti," which isn't quite as salacious as it sounds. With a final invocation he sends us - mostly New Yorkers, but including recruits from California and Georgia - to our battle stations. We'd be there until after midnight, when we'd fulfilled our final mission: confetti accompli...
...crowd has changed too, in size, tone and demographic. On New Year's Eve 40 years ago, in my Columbia U. days, I came out of a 42nd Street movie theater, noticed that it was a few minutes after midnight and was able to call my mother on a pay phone just around the corner from the revelers, who probably numbered in the low hundred-thousands. These days you'd need to be the mayor, or Christina Aguilera (who sang last night), to be in that spot. The crosstown streets are barricaded from late afternoon, and to get a good...
...evidence, German tourist Irina Martin said she was heading back to her hotel instead of going to Bangkok's famous New Year's countdown at the Central World shopping mall complex, as she had originally planned. "I heard rumors from other people that there might be more explosions at midnight," said the kindergarten teacher from Hamburg. "It's not worth going, just for a party...
...Thai authorities must have agreed. They quickly canceled the Central World festivities and urged the thousands of people already gathered for the countdown to go home. Many dispersed, but plenty of celebrants were still milling around when a second wave of bombs detonated around midnight. Two explosions erupted near Central World, one at a flyover and another at a seafood restaurant frequented by tourists. Several foreigners were injured in the midnight attacks. Firework blasts added to the general chaos, with initial reports of further bombs proving instead to be New Year's Eve festivities...