It's made in huge machines which tear and shred the edges to get it to clump and drift like real snow because if you cut it it just acts like confetti.
To postpone the moment when he would have to look at Cho, he stared up at the ceiling as though examining the paintwork and received a handful of confetti in the face from their hovering cherub.
Another 175 million people will watch the broadcast on television not only in the US but around the world as a ton and a half of confetti will fly over the crowd at midnight.
A giant papier-mache rat named the Pantegana led the water parade in the lagoon city, before a symbolic explosion into clouds of environmentally sustainable confetti and streamers.