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...been drinking beers that night with his sister Dorothy, Australian tennis star John Newcombe and Newcombe's wife. Officer Bridges, just getting off duty, saw Bush's car slipping briefly onto the shoulder before getting back on the road. Bridges stopped the car and asked Bush to take a balloon test. The result: an alcohol level over Maine's 0.10 legal limit. Bush readily admitted he had been drinking, Bridges said, and made no attempt to evade the consequences. Bridges placed him under arrest. After failing a second alcohol-level test at the police station, Bush was released...
...proudly displayed the translucent balloon horse that wrapped around her waist and held her yellow monkey balloon up for all to admire...
Ronda Hartmann's 8-year-old daughter Aurelia said the man who made the balloon characters was her favorite...
...especially about a Los Angeles subspecies of sexual predators "whose highest accomplishments are that they were cute in high school." But the author is serious about his glove lady, Mirabelle Buttersfield, and about Ray Porter, the fiftysomething man Mirabelle admits into her solitary life. Once Martin fashioned funny-weird balloon animals; now, at 55, he creates funny-sad, nice and not-so-nice people, as real as your morning-after face in the bathroom mirror...
Trendier still is writing in rhyme, at least as evidenced by several of this fall's entries. Actress JAMIE LEE CURTIS follows up her three previous children's books (including the New York Times best seller Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day) with Where Do Balloons Go? An Uplifting Mystery (HarperCollins), which has also made an appearance on the Times list. The book ponders such weighty thoughts about balloons as: "Are they always alone?/ Do they meet up in pairs?/ Do they ever get married and make balloon heirs?" The ebullient watercolor illustrations by Laura Cornell...