Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shakespeare. It is Kleist's tart little fragments that most charm a reader today. There is, for example, the Swiftian modest proposal for sending messages by artillery and cannon ball, if speed is what everybody wants. There is the marvelously straight-faced account of an ascension in the balloon of Professor J. There is the wonderful little parody of The Sorrows of Young Werther: instead of killing himself, boy gets girl and lives happily ever after, fathering 13 children. Goethe, it is sometimes said, wrote Werther in order not to become Werther. Moderns can honor him for his sanity...
...taller than the original) was hoisted a quarter-mile in the air to his old haunt atop the Empire State. Even without the menacing biplanes, Kong fared poorly, with tangled cables and tears in his heavy vinyl-coated nylon skin. But after a week of deflating mishaps, the balloon's builders, who plan to take the ape on tour this year, finally got the weather and mild winds they had prayed for. And lo, as blowers pumped air through Kong's toes, the creature filled out to his full, magnificent size, producing one of the most striking sights...
...wrong, the USSR always in the right. As long as the discussion centers around the arms race and international affairs. Arbatov's line of argument is at least plausible. But when the authors turn to comparative human rights and the drawbacks of the Soviet social system, the Soviet balloon pops...
When the authors turn to comparative human rights, the Soviet balloon pops. policy in the USSR And a disproportionately large number of people attempt to leave the Soviet Union each year to live in the West How many people can you think of who have given up the United States or Western Europe to live in Moscow...
HOSPITALIZED. David Niven, 73, debonair British actor, bestselling autobiographer (The Moon's a Balloon, Bring On the Empty Horses) and novelist (Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly); ostensibly for treatment of a digestive problem; in London. Niven suffers from a progressive neuromuscular disorder reported to be the incurable amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, sometimes called Lou Gehrig's disease, which has left him with a speech impairment and partial use of his left hand...