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MEMORABLE MOMENT The tractor carrying Channing and Hirt stalls on the 35-yd.-line, while a prop hot-air balloon almost crushes costumed Southern Belles...
...five-bedroom houses. Even so, I asked Primrose to scan the room for me and check out the new crop. "I think there's a lot of good-looking women," she said. She thought I might meet them at company picnics, which often feature the AOL hot-air balloon. This sounded romantic enough, until I heard about the AOL race car, which David Hasselhoff drove in a Baywatch episode. I don't think there's a woman on the planet who wouldn't be putty around that thing...
...fired from a Pacific atoll failed to hit a mock warhead deployed by a missile fired in California. Although the system managed to destroy a mock warhead last October, it was later reported to have been a lucky accident after the interceptor missile had locked on to a decoy balloon that drifted close to the target. "I call the Pentagon all the time and sometimes they can?t transfer my calls to the right place," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "So how are they going to manage to shoot down a missile with a missile? This...
...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...