Children wearing paper hats, blowing whistles and igniting firecrackers wandered through the streets here today, reflecting a festive mood as Lebanese prepared to celebrate New Year's Eve with a gusto unseen in more than 15 years.
Just then, someone ignited a firecracker.
At a recent performance, during the crucial scene in which Iachimo steals the sleeping Imogen's bracelet, not even the incessant ka-booms from firecrackers ignited elsewhere in the park could unsettle this steady actor.
The last torchbearer, diver He Chong lit up the cauldron, after igniting the traditional Chinese firecrackers whose flare shot up to the top of the tower where the cauldron was held.
Modernist art, insurgent and utopian, ignited like a firecracker cluster in cities across the globe in the early 20th century.
(Rosenberg) ★ Museum of Modern Art: 'Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde' (through Feb. 25) Modernist art, insurgent and utopian, ignited like a firecracker cluster in cities across the globe in the early 20th century, and Tokyo was one of them.
(Johnson) ★ Museum of Modern Art: 'Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde' (through Feb. 25) Modernist art, insurgent and utopian, ignited like a firecracker cluster in cities across the globe in the early 20th century, and Tokyo was one of them.
In "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond," Bryce Dallas Howard ignites like a firecracker, playing an impulsive, emotionally unstable heiress recklessly defying the hidebound conventions of 1920s Memphis high society.
But he soon became both reflective and jolly, his rueful sense of humor occasionally igniting like a firecracker.
But a quick Google search revealed that the phrase refers to a firecracker that has failed to ignite, perhaps because it was left out in the rain.
In one of his best known events, he ignited a spiral of helium-filled balloons and firecrackers in downtown Hiroshima, creating the impression of terrible fires being sucked back into the earth; next month he plans a large installation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
