Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. ALEX RITCHIE, 53, intrepid British balloonist whose airborne acrobatics--and buoyancy of spirit--last year averted mogul Richard Branson's balloon team's death by deflation; from injuries suffered during a parachute jump; in London...
This joke, told in Abbas Kiarostami's luminous Taste of Cherry, hints at the spirit of Iran's vital new cinema: knowing, poignant, as simple and universally significant as an Aesop fable. Kiarostami, who is Iran's leading director (Through the Olive Trees) and screenwriter (The White Balloon), tells his tales with the grace and gravity of a wise old man in a village square. Taste of Cherry, which won the top prize at Cannes last year, is the finest of his shaggy-man stories...
...Involvement in all political clubs is cyclical....The campaigns really get started near the end of next semester, and membership will definitely balloon then," Passante says...
Senator Trent Lott's trial balloon--censure the President if any of this proves to be so--might be just right...
...cigarette through a quarter or how to place a half dollar through the neck of a bottle and out again. Budding magicians who want to learn the tricks of the trade can choose from Jack's how-to videos on card magic, thumbtip tricks, money magic, balloon magic and other illusionist genres...