Word: ballooned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...midweek Barber was back on page 8. The cause: brown-eyed Balloon Girl Rosemary Mudie, 30, who, along with three male companions, was towed into Barbados by a fisherman after a 24-day, 3,000-mile air and sea passage from the Canary Islands in the boat-bottomed balloon Small World. Headlined Rosemary...
Small World's landing came as a relief to Mail editors. They had touted the balloon flight as the Kon-Tiki voyage of the air, then began to downplay it when the balloon Small World was unreported for three weeks. When reports of the voyage's success reached London, the Mail changed its type face, said Small World's success was "certainly anticipated," roared "we take responsibility for it." In Barbados Mail reporters took command. The Mail had bought all but American rights to the story...
Tied to a balloon or bobbing down a canal in a bottle, the little magazine slips each month into Communist East Germany from the Western zone of Berlin. The cover of the contraband Tarantel (tarantula) proclaims that it is "priceless," but for East Germans caught chuckling over the magazine's sledgehammer humor, the price can be a term in a Red prison. Despite its problems of distribution and retribution, Tarantel is a big success among East Germans. Reason: the butt of humor for Tarantel is East Germany's Communist government...
...Betsy, Carol, Diana, Edna and so on down through Queenie) against the day publication was resumed, this running rehash avoided the obvious temptation to correct day-to-day judgments in the light of hindsight. On Dec. 27 the Times filed away a story-later proved false-that a transatlantic balloon had landed safely in Venezuela. It would have been easy to replace that story with another before the delayed two-page issue was printed, but the Times resolutely immortalized the false report, published a second story explaining the hoax in the next day's two pages...
Hingle (as J.B.), Raymond Massey as Mr. Zuss (the balloon salesman who plays God), Nan Martin as J.B.'s wife, and Christopher Plummer as Nickels (the popcorn vendor who portrays Satan) are all excellent. Boris Aronson's set is magnificent; Miss Ballard's costumes catch the proper blend of the gaudy and grotesque; David Amram's music and Tharon Musser's lighting lend almost surrealistic overtones to the drama. And Kazan ringmasters his menagerie with the genius which has earned him his reputation...