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Article: SKY-HIGH CELEBRATION AHEAD BLOW THE HORNS OFPLENTY FOR SEATTLE'S FUN-LOVING NEW YEAR'S EVE-NTS.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- December 20, 2002
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Byline: GENE STOUT P-I pop music critic
No matter where you spend New Year's Eve - in front of the TV, at a great big party, cruising around in a stretch limo or sitting in a dingy little bar nursing a cheap martini - you'll want to look toward the Space Needle at midnight.
To launch each year, the 605-foot Seattle landmark takes off like a Saturn rocket, spewing sparks, smoke and flame without actually lifting off the ground. The eight-minute show is even bigger this year, with a whopping 8,000 pyrotechnic effects choreographed to music by George Gershwin, Aaron Copland and Antonin Dvorak. One of the tallest structure-launched fireworks shows in the ...