Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been pondering whether Jewett went too far. Meanwhile Seminary President David Hubbard told a special chapel meeting that Lindsell seeks to draw a sharp line "through the heart of the Evangelical community. The dangers of forcing this cleavage are frightening." Added Hubbard in an interview: "Lindsell has the gas-balloon theory of theology. One leak and the whole Bible comes down. As a result he has to spend all his time patching...
Then two years ago, with the onset of the nation's deepest postwar recession, the balloon burst. As costs skyrocketed and the flow of corporate promotions slowed, the advertising business ran into trouble. Today, after struggling through one of the worst periods in its history, advertising is far more sober and hungry than it used...
...first act moved fast. Intermission backstage involved more balloon-blowing, song-humming and cleaning up. People were grimy from rolling on the floor and squeezing pears and bananas. Elizabeth Genovese played the theme from "Love Story" on a dusty grand piano. The costume mistress lugged five popcorn costumes--27 pounds worth of shredded foam rubber. "Don't miss the best part," everyone advised. About ten minutes into Act Two they hurled themselves into those costumes in the back lobby of the theater for the popcorn ballet. The lightening quick change was an art--wigs off, costumes off, leotards bare, popcorns...
People start to leave for the cast party in Adams House Upper Common Room. Pace and conversation are slow as they leave Radcliffe Yard. An actress hums 'Adeline,' a song from the show. When they reach Adams House, taped dance music blares too loudly for her to continue. A balloon pops, as in punctuation; shreds of orange rubber float to the floor now cluttered with cigarettes and booze...
...THEN that the party was punctured, and like a great and windy balloon began to lose air fast and sink sloppily back to earth. With loose farts our party sagged and emptied until it was ready to be packed away in the brown plastic bags that Bruce and I had readied. The only people who were left collected in the mellow room, and the late-nighters who would keep it up past the dawn and had only then arrived jammed armchairs with gossip and marijuana before passing on. Sixteen point seven per cent of the Shalimar Six left at nearly...