Word: ballooning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stage, and after some fantastic salsa-dancing action--women wearing little beyond sequins and feathers--there is a magician, ponytailed, with two ponytailed assistants. And this magician's specialty is doves. Everywhere he is making doves appear. From his sleeve, a dove. From a newspaper, a dove. A balloon is popped, and a dove appears and flaps wildly. The crowd loves it. The doves appear, each one flailing its wings for a few seconds of chaos and quasi-freedom. Then the magician, with fluid nonchalance, grabs the dove from the air, two-handed, making from the explosion of feathery white...
...marriage was showing signs of miscarrying. A contracted novel I had completed was about to be rejected. During the writing of that doomed book, I had taken to ingesting prolific amounts of narcotics. I didn't take these drugs--Vicodin, Percocet, Dilaudid, morphine sulfate, Talwin, Darvon, codeine, the occasional balloon of street heroin--to help me write; I took them to make me feel better about how badly I was writing...
...course, Schering-Plough would pay almost any amount of money to protect its exclusive right to sell Claritin, a drug that brings it more than $5 million in revenue a day. Claritin sales totaled $1.9 billion last year, and will balloon to $4 billion by 2002, according to a market analyst. To keep the money coming in, the company doubled its lobbying outlay starting in 1996 to more than $4 million in 1998. Among its other paid advocates: former Senator Dennis DeConcini; former Watergate assistant special prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste; and Thomas Parry, former chief of staff for Senator Orrin...
...Pritchard tells how, years later, he ended up in an emergency room after a gang member conked him on the head. And guess who was his nurse? Gina, who took note of the fact that while she had slimmed down nicely, Pritchard was the size of a weather balloon. "I tried Ultra SlimFast," he says. "I found out it tastes great on Ben & Jerry...
...Some of these cartoons start out innocently enough. In "Billy's Balloon," a little stick figure boy carries a red balloon with him. The sun is shining in the peaceful clouds. Then, all of a sudden the balloon starts hitting poor Billy on the head and then hanging him from the sky and next dropping him to a gloomy fate below. Soon the sky is filled with a swarm of evil balloons carrying little children. This might not quite appeal to your sense of humor, but the films are short enough, ranging from the one-minute Forrest Dump and Foreskin...