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...spread before them like a red carpet. The blowups could be relics of a religion -- innocence -- that all in attendance want desperately to believe in. When the band launches into a moony ballad, folks in their 40s hit the floor to dance slow and close. And as a Mylar balloon sails toward the rafters, one aging yuppie reaches for the string, but it eludes his grasp. The reflexes of youth are gone, but the impulse is as strong as ever...
...hands-down the most festive booth ofall, the centerpiece of which was a windsurferemblazoned with the company's logo. A steadystream of students was drawn to the booth by aminiature wheel of fortune, because spinning meantwinning an IBM-insignia trinket, a balloon, a cup,or a notebook. And if you wanted popcorn, this wasthe place...
...Reagan had to endure. Conservatives were most vehement in criticizing the President for even thinking about a summit or an arms-control deal while Daniloff awaits trial on a charge that could theoretically be punished by death. Columnist George Will sneered that the Administration had collapsed "like a punctured balloon," and the Washington Times editorially flung the conservatives' supreme insult: "Jimmy Carter, by comparison, was tough and crafty...
...Dutch crew of two men and one woman waited anxiously in Newfoundland for a month before conditions finally allowed them to launch their 46-meter-tall balloon. But at last they caught the weather just right. After a flawless flight across the Atlantic, Pilot Henk Brink, 42, his wife Evelien, 31, and Fighter Pilot Willem Hageman, 39, last week became the first Europeans to accomplish the balloon voyage and, with a time of 51 hrs. 14 min., shaved more than a day off the old record. "A piece of cake," said Hageman. The only hitch in their speedy journey...
...Rhinemaidens frolic in Victorian bloomers. Fricka ascends to Valhalla by means of a balloon gondola. The Valkyries ride off to war aboard carrousel horses suspended in midair. Wotan puts Brunnhilde to sleep in what appears to be a cluttered attic, full of ungodly bric-a-brac, and she awakens in a starry mausoleum. Siegfried slays the dragon Fafner by chopping at a gigantic crab's claw and then pushing over a flimsy set of painted flats. The forest bird who guides the hero to Brunnhilde is a taxidermist's specimen, carried aloft on a stick by a highly visible soprano...