Star Wars

“JERUSALEM, May 7 (Reuters) –
 Fireworks and military fanfare
 launched Israel’s 60th anniversary
 celebrations on Wednesday…”

Related material
from Tuesday:

Mailer's 'The Time of Our Time' May 5, 1998, cover with fireworks starburst

“… someone was down sixty,
   someone was up….”

— Play It As It Lays