Word: balloons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nobody likes a woman who is angry. Her male friends would shy away from her with a "she'll get over it" condescension, and their condescension would fortify her outrage. You feel ugly fighting with a shrew's snarl, though. It is like using brass knuckles on a balloon for a punching bag. And you begin to wonder if you are worth liking after...
Others suggested inflating a balloon to shade the craft, or spray painting the affected area. Eventually, NASA seemed to be settling on a different solution: the astronauts would try to shield Skylab with a tissue-thin, aluminized sail-like sheet of Mylar, a plastic film...
...Gambril] really put the air back in the balloon," Essick said yesterday of the Harvard swimming program. "And I think that with the returning lettermen and the really quality freshmen coming next year, we definitely have the potential to compete on a national level...
During Brandt's 2½-hour oration, which was interrupted 81 times by applause, convention delegates could almost hear the air hissing out of the Juso balloon. Even Roth, who was one of eight leftwingers elected to the party's 36-man executive board, admitted that he was "impressed" by Brandt's words...
Granted that the show is an entertainment hybrid, Writer-Director-Choreographer Michael Bennett is unstinting in his professionalism. Aided by Grover Dale, Bob Avian and Tommy Tune, Bennett's dances have a carnal thrust that evokes aspects of both the play and work life of the city. One balloon-saturated number featuring the elongatedly energetic 6-ft. 6-in. Tommy Tune is a bit like meeting E.E. Cummings' mythical "goat-footed balloonMan" in Central Park in the spring...