Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that she has lost the money. With the help of an old woman, she finds her money, but it falls down a grate. She spends most of her time trying to find a way to retrieve her money and finally does, with the help of her brother and a balloon seller...
...this should change with "The White Balloon." Already acclaimed as one of the best international films of the decade, "The White Balloon" takes a simple plot and transforms it into an incredibly emotional and well-crafted piece of art. It has already won the Camera d'Or award and the International Critics' Prize in the Cannes film festival...
...White Balloon" is the story of a seven-year-old child who, on the eve of the Persian New Year, sees a beautiful goldfish in a pet shop window. Fish are an elemental part of the Persian New Year celebration, which occurs on the first day of spring and lasts for thirteen days. The goldfish in the pet shop is expensive for the family's rather modest income. But with the help of her brother, the little girl, Razieh (Aida Mohammadkhani), convinces her mother to buy the fish for their New Year ceremony...
There was a curious moment last week when all the air seemed to ebb out of the Forbes balloon. On the night of Junior Tuesday, when Forbes finished second in Connecticut but no better than third in any other state, he and his campaign manager, Bill Dal Col, mused about a way for Forbes to persevere as a candidate of ideas without terminally alienating the Republican Party. Dal Col himself was mindful of the example of Jim Baker, George Bush's 1980 campaign manager, who yanked his eager candidate out of the race so that it would not poison Bush...
...that bleak Tuesday last week, Forbes' natural optimism was rewarded: Jack Kemp, in bed with the flu, called to say that, yes, he would finally endorse his fellow progrowth traveler. Suddenly the hot air whooshed back into the Forbes campaign balloon. But Kemp then seemed to have second thoughts about his belated impulse. The day after he came aboard he was disturbed to learn that Forbes was planning a new round of negative ads. Kemp telephoned Dole headquarters, wanting to speak to the Senator. "The good news," said a top Dole fund raiser, "is that Dole has a short memory...