Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much impressed by the fact that Rockefeller in 1958 had been hugely helped by New York City's normally Democratic Jewish voters. To win back that vote in 1962, Harris argued, the Democrats needed a Jewish candidate to run against Rocky. Up went a trial balloon for respected Appellate Division Justice Bernard Botein; it roused little interest, and down it came. Then Harris, as the acknowledged working head of a Democratic group that includes ex-Senator Herbert Lehman, 84, Tammany Leader Ed Costikyan (successor to Carmine De Sapio) and assorted liberal lawyers and public relations men, began promoting Robert...
Five Weeks in a Balloon. "Sirrr," proclaims an intrepid Scotsman, "Ah prro-pose to fly in a balloon fourrr thousand mayles overrr unexplorred jungle...
...Less than six decades after the author's death, his fantasies of the future read like parodies of the past, and Director Irwin Allen wisely plays for parody what he cannot turn to thrills. He laughs up his gasbag at the Vernerable tale. He pumps the soggy old Balloon so full of hot air that it finally gets off the ground...
...begin with, Director Allen pokes some sly fun at the balloon itself: a big, pink, candy-striped burp that floats above a unicorny dreamboat possibly borrowed from Disneyland. He also has a few snickers for the leathery old hams with which Balloon is ballasted: Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Red Buttons, Herbert Marshall, Billy Gilbert, Chester the Chimp-the ape apes them all and in the process manages slyly to suggest that they are all making monkeys of themselves. Gravely he lists the cinema cliches associated with African adventure: senile rented lions, brffsking British bwanas, bulbous Viennese sheiks, disdressed American...
...emotional faith-healing sessions; Billy James Hargis has made his name with a blatant melding of fundamentalist faith to extreme right-wing politics. Age 37, he stands a shade under six feet, but weighs almost 275 Ibs., in rolls of fat that start at his jowls and balloon into an elephant-sized waistline. Except when he is drumming up donations, Billy James Hargis is deadly serious onstage-but he nonetheless lays the serious cause of anti-Communism open to ridicule...