Word: balloons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helium-filled, nonflammable balloons, often with matching ribbons, are most in demand for wedding anniversaries, birthdays, bar mitzvahs, St. Valentine's Day and Mother's Day, and the unscheduled declaration of affection that might otherwise be offered with chrysanthemums. Shelly Anderson, who with Sandye Dianto started the Balloon Express Co. in Los Angeles last May, specializes in hand-painted balloons depicting rainbows, birthday cakes and people's names-even "dirty pictures." One blue batch was decorated with "porno stuff' and delivered with a nude male clown to a woman's "stagette" party. Another Los Angeles...
...parade through the Garden District of New Orleans, to the beat of 63 Dixieland tunes belted out by the ten-piece Olympia Brass Band. Children gawked and grownups dropped their weekend chores to watch. One woman clown clad in green and white greeted a bemused bystander with a blue balloon and a smacking kiss on the cheek. Another clown in a striped T shirt and psychedelic wig paused from time to time to give lawnmowers, car windshields, even a motorcycle policeman's helmet a few flicks with his bright red feather duster. Along the way, the clowns stopped...
...organized one of the earliest clown ministries in Elkhart, Ind., among the young people of his parish. Calling themselves the Holy Fools, they began visiting hospitals, mental institutions and nursing homes, where they fanned out to chat with individual patients, occasionally performed short skits or magic tricks and made balloon sculptures. Often they just talked quietly with a patient, held or hugged him. As one clown explained: "Sometimes when we don't say so many words, the Word comes through more clearly." They had such success at reaching out to withdrawn, sick and lonely people that the idea quickly...
...Tehran, some Western diplomats interpreted the release of Queen as "a good signal," possibly even a sort of trial balloon by Iranian authorities to determine how the populace would react. Others saw the release of Queen as a convoluted maneuver by Iran's clerical establishment to embarrass the beleaguered Banisadr. Observed a senior civil servant: "If Banisadr's rivals in the clergy were indeed trying to prove who is boss in Iran, they did an excellent job." Most Iranians believed that Khomeini, who chose to release five women and eight black male hostages last November, had simply decided...
When Albuquerque Businessman Maxie Anderson, 45, and his son Kris, 23, completed the first nonstop transcontinental balloon flight in May, the four-day voyage of 2,818 miles from Fort Baker, Calif., to Ste. Félicité, Quebec, set a world record for overland flight. Another, more esoteric record was achieved in April by Jerry Dietrick, 56, of Florence, Ky., who became the first pilot to fly solo from Cincinnati to London to Munich in a single-engine plane of the 3,850-lb. to 6,414-lb. class...