Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that list, "having an uncanny sense of timing." While panicky investors in lower Manhattan spent Monday jettisoning their stocks like sandbags in a sinking hot-air balloon, the owner of the New York Yankees in the South Bronx reshuffled his management with characteristically reckless impatience...
...which all the safety nets might be tested at once. That would put daunting pressure on the Government if its deficits remain high, because declining tax receipts and rising welfare payments would push the budget gap out of sight. Each additional percentage point of unemployment in the U.S. would balloon the deficit by an estimated $40 billion a year, a spectacle that might erode public confidence even further...
...unusual size. Buttercup will survive an attack by a swarm of shrieking eels and an attempt on her honor by wicked Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon), whom Westley will climactically engage in a fight "to the pain." There will be a duel of styles too: of romantic grandeur against the balloon-pricking impishness of a cast culled from Saturday Night Live (Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest), Beyond the Fringe (Peter Cook) and Not the Nine o'Clock News (Mel Smith). The air will billow with bombastic insults ("You hippopotamic land mass!") and a record-breaking number of comic speech impediments...
...fingers. Or take the hat-with-the-arrow routine (please). "It was a thing we used to sell at Disneyland," Martin says. "It goes back to the theory, 'God, these gags are so dumb!' By the end of the act I was wearing the hat with the arrow, the balloon animals, the nose glasses and the bunny ears. I wanted to look as ridiculous as possible. It was like anticomedy." And a lunatic ad for Merlin's Magic Shop...
Next Sunday Philadelphia has scheduled a hot-air balloon race that will cross the city and end in New Jersey; 13 balloons, representing the 13 original states will vie for the title of the nation's No. 1 gas bag. Representatives of Congress are expected to hold a symbolic meeting in Congress Hall on July 16, and on Sept. 17 -- the day the Constitution was formally approved by convention delegates -- President Reagan, former Chief Justice Warren Burger and congressional leaders will be present as a giant parade passes Independence Hall. A mammoth picnic along the Delaware River waterfront will follow...