Many Venezuelans began their day as early as 3 a.m., with Mr. Chávez's fervent supporters detonating fireworks and blasting music to roust people from their beds.
Keep a safe distance from detonating fireworks to protect from burns and ear damage.
It was time for the fete's final reward, a perfect way to cap off a day of excessively imbibing mind-altering substances: Marlena and I would detonate a firework we had recently purchased at a gas station in New Mexico.
"Alas we cannot hope to compete in sheer tonnage of TNT that we put up into the air and detonate with our fireworks display," Johnson said.
The politics of "Rollerball" -- life is cheap but freedom isn't -- are almost as subtle as the game's scoring system; fireworks detonate when a goal is made.
No courtroom fireworks detonate in "Denial," a sober, methodical recounting of a 1996 libel suit brought by David Irving, a discredited British historian, against Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of the 1993 book "Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory".
The film concludes with the outfit performing "Crazy Car" on the roof of the Wolffs' apartment while fireworks detonate in the background.
Stuart's wife, Denise, unimpressed by the tray of indoor fireworks detonated in the kitchen while she was making the gravy, has referred to him as a "half-wit".
Thompson's "elegant and entertaining" tale "detonates a whole fireworks of happy endings -- flares of hope and success so exuberant that the book almost seems to require a warning label," Lisa Zeidner wrote in these pages last year.
Across the bay in Pelham Bay Park is Rodman's Neck, a police firing range and the place where the bomb squad detonates confiscated bombs and fireworks.
And fireworks will surely detonate when, in March, Philip Pullman gives his contribution to Canongate's "Myths" series: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.
