Word: balloons
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...12th annual Great American Brass Band Festival. Margaret and Fonis Payne have traveled 130 miles from Columbus, Ind., every year since 1991. "We forsake everything else so we can be there," says Margaret. "When you find the best, why go anywhere else?" The free events include a hot-air balloon race and continuous music from players perched on high-wheel 1890s bicycles, Civil War-era bands, musicians performing from a re-created turn-of-the-century bandwagon, and New Orleans-style jazz bands. There is also an all-day band-history conference, which costs...
...Unite with each other, and integrate with the other contingents." Given their mandate that's difficult while on duty, but off hours reveal a different story. At the end of each day, Japanese soldiers jog with Canadians through the apple orchard outside the base, in the shadow of the balloon-shaped radar antennae of the Israeli listening station on Mount Avital. They play baseball with the Canadians and soccer with the Poles. Canadian soldiers eschew the beef lasagne of their own cooks and chow down in the noisy mess hall on tempura and miso soup prepared by Furusho's three...
...report was filed about an individual who threw a water balloon at a group of living wage demonstrators outside of Mass. Hall...
...also shows a kind of olive-drab heart. Its major structural difference from Survivor is the most telling: the "recruits" conduct grueling reward challenges, not in teams, but as one unit. It's the most literal example of a widespread reality-show theme: that ordinary folk (including a professional balloon sculptor), working together and given motivation, can gut it out mentally and physically--that your real opponent is yourself...
Along the way, Dirt suffers through numerous mishaps, mostly situations set up solely for the purposed of forcing an easy laugh; he is caught in a molar-shaped hot air balloon, seduced by a trailer trash temptress played by Jaime Pressly (Tomcats, Jerry Springer: Ringmaster) at a carnival, swung like a doll in the jaws of an enormous crocodile and finds himself on the losing end of multiple encounters with human excrement...