Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work gamed international attention recently when he used a translucent helium-filled balloon 100 times the size of the Goodyear blimp" and "as high as the John Hancock Building" in Boston to lower a 150lh. package of measuring devices repeatedly through the stratosphere...
...success of the balloon operation, Anderson explained, "is that we can enter a new generation of stratosphere exploration that will enable us to provide data from the stratosphere itself that is comparable" to lab data...
...Oates has undertaken to recount the saga of the five nubile Zinn sisters of Bloodsmoor Valley, Pa., circa 1880. For these young ladies, the trajectory of love follows the customarily lunatic lines of an Oates romance. The youngest Zinn, Deirdre, is snatched away by a stranger in "an outlaw balloon of sinister black-silken hue" as she sits crocheting in a gazebo. Sister Malvinia escapes the toils of Victorian family life in her own way: she makes a career as an actress and is courted by a singularly repulsive Mark Twain. Octavia marries a closet sadist and feather-boa fetishist...
...western Pennsylvania. From the abduction of the youngest sister, Deride a "strangely haunted child" to the "final bold stroke of midnight, December 31, 1899." "Although presented as a true chronicle the events tend towards the fantastic from the initial sequence in which Deride disappears in a black silk balloon. Yet such events are treated as commonplace (if confusing) as is sexual mutability. Neither ghost nor devil is long absent from the Zinn hearth...
...White House denies that there has been any change in policy. Presidential Spokesman Larry Speakes last week described a New York Times story that asserted the Administration wanted to ease the embargo as "basically not true." Other sources in the Government, however, suspect that the story was a trial balloon floated by the White House itself. And even one presidential aide admitted (privately) that his boss "would very much like to lift these sanctions...