Word: balloons
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When I signed up for a hot air balloon tour of Australia's Hunter Valley, famed for its wines, I had visions of a romantic Loire Valley-style adventure transplanted Down Under: festively colored, majestic balloons awaiting me with jets of golden flame roaring into their bellies and liveried waiters serving flutes of champagne. But this is no-frills, no-nonsense Oz, after all, and visitors to the valley can expect, instead, 4:30 a.m. wake-ups for the predawn launch, a dress code of jeans, caps and collared shirts to protect heads and necks from the heat...
...those few seconds, the audience views the sisters, played by Margaret S. Lehrman ’04, Sarah L. Thomas ’04 and Eva Furrow ’03, each standing framed by her own window against the surrealistically-tall background. Irina, the youngest sister, drops a balloon to the stage. The audience is left with a striking opening montage...
...Following a Harvard touchdown in the second quarter of the 1982 Game, a enormous black weather balloon with M.I.T. emblazoned on its side rose from the field and exploded over the 45 yard line. The Crimson went on to a 45-7 victory over Yale...
While en route, we decided to take advantage of the special night and stock up on candy at a local residence. Soggy and disheveled (almost all of my spots were ruined after the Prime Minister’s left water-balloon breast experienced a slight leak) we finally arrived at 33 Elmwood. The large, yellow edifice was surrounded by bulldozers and piles of mud, so making our way up to the main doors was no easy feat. After calling out Larry’s name for a good five minutes (as if he’d really answer to that...
...stimulus package are clear. The White House and leaders of both parties have agreed with Greenspan's assessment that new spending and tax cuts should total about 1% of the country's annual income, that it should make its effects felt quickly and that it should not threaten to balloon the deficit so much down the road that it immediately raises long-term interest rates. But once you get past the parameters and into the particulars, the two parties in Congress don't seem to be in accord on anything...