Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...body, the result is a grotesque caricature. Nixon is thin, almost frail. His head emerges from neckless, hunched shoulders; he looks like a younger Ed Sullivan. His feet dangle like a marionette's encased in tiny black shoes. His arms are held close to his side, except when they balloon out in stilted Victory gestures...
...students who showed up tried to slink in and out the door, guarded on each side by a bunny. When one student managed to escape without being given a Blood Drive balloon, the escort said excitedly, "Give him a balloon, give him a balloon." The student kept going, saying he didn't want one. "He didn't want one," Goldie said, grinning. The escort frowned...
...commercials and cartoon voices, makes as many as ten complete costume changes each show. He appears as a double-talking Russian, a freaked-out Swede, the German soldier ("Verrry interesting"), a dirty old man and a guru ("Man who speaketh with forked tongue should never kiss a balloon...
...morning came a "Sun Dance." The musicians played drums, chimes, tom-toms, anything at all, while the audience hopped around in the mire chanting, "Sun! Sun! Sun! Sun!" When the sun obliged, a balloonist named Mark Semich took off in a huge red, white and blue hot-air balloon and rode the wind over the hills. That was supposed to be the lighter-than-air part of the festival, but Semich need not have gone to the trouble: many of the youngsters were already lighter than...
Tange, who designed Tokyo's Olympic stadium, had laid out a trunk-and-branch design for the 815-acre site; the U.S. pavilion's balloon design was to have been echoed by surrounding pavilions, notably those of France and Japan. American Architects Sam Brody and Lewis Davis, working with Tange, designed the experimental complex. "Until now," says Brody, "air structures have been rather lumpish affairs on the ground. We wanted to introduce the airborne silhouette...