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Then, as the 48-ft.-high structure was nearly filled to its capacity of 4 million gal., something went wrong. The tank suddenly burst like a balloon, loosing its contents in a matter of seconds. Some 3.8 million gal. of the oil erupted in a 35-ft.-high tidal wave that quickly overflowed the earthen dike meant to contain such spills. In the 7 degrees cold, 860,000 gal. inundated nearby Route 837. The oil then poured through storm sewers into the Monongahela, a once polluted river that over the past ten years has been painstakingly restored to health...
...crowd immediately fell quiet. The curtain rose on ethereal angels with silver lyres, that looked like K-Mart specials. Then the angels floated off stage (and with them the dry ice that had provided a Vegas air to the scene), and our hero and heroine returned--in a balloon...
...that list, "having an uncanny sense of timing." While panicky investors in lower Manhattan spent Monday jettisoning their stocks like sandbags in a sinking hot-air balloon, the owner of the New York Yankees in the South Bronx reshuffled his management with characteristically reckless impatience...
...which all the safety nets might be tested at once. That would put daunting pressure on the Government if its deficits remain high, because declining tax receipts and rising welfare payments would push the budget gap out of sight. Each additional percentage point of unemployment in the U.S. would balloon the deficit by an estimated $40 billion a year, a spectacle that might erode public confidence even further...
...unusual size. Buttercup will survive an attack by a swarm of shrieking eels and an attempt on her honor by wicked Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon), whom Westley will climactically engage in a fight "to the pain." There will be a duel of styles too: of romantic grandeur against the balloon-pricking impishness of a cast culled from Saturday Night Live (Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest), Beyond the Fringe (Peter Cook) and Not the Nine o'Clock News (Mel Smith). The air will billow with bombastic insults ("You hippopotamic land mass!") and a record-breaking number of comic speech impediments...