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...uncanonized saint. His spectacular, freshly painted portraits gave Moscow a colorful veneer for the occasion. Everywhere, banners and flags snapped in the spring breezes. At nightfall, colored lights twinkled in the capital's trees, fireworks illuminated its skies, and spotlights played on a huge portrait suspended from a blimp. Coinciding with the civilian celebrations was a dazzling worldwide show of strength by the Soviet navy and air force. After a year of almost ceaseless drumbeating, the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth had arrived at last, and Vladimir Ilyich was being given...
Last year San Diego's COMBO (Combined Arts of San Diego) raised $250,000 auctioning off such items as a new house, an African safari and a ride in the Goodyear blimp; nobody bid on the two-week vacation in a nudist colony. Orlando's (Fla.) PESO (Participation Enriches Science, Music and Art Organizations), which raised $162,000 at its auction last year, had no trouble disposing of 50 tons of orange-grove fertilizer and a $2,500 orange-grove sprayer. And in Phoenix this year, such items as hernia and cataract operations, stud service by a registered...
...discussed hop pickers in Kent; nit pickers in the academic world of Oxbridge; the habits of male prostitutes in Trafalgar Square and intellectual prostitutes in the BBC's Portland Place. Down and Way Out. By all the laws of bloodlines and training, George Orwell should have been a Blimp. Born Eric Blair, into a military-official family, he went on scholarship to a spartan prep school designed to groom likely lads for their destined place in the Establishment. Like any dutiful upper-class English boy, he journeyed East to govern the lesser breeds as an officer in the Burmese...
Taking on an Allen Drury political melodrama is like harpooning a blimp at three feet. It is not only impossible to miss, but every thrust is likely to be fatal. To begin with, there is the dreary genre itself-a peek-into-the-future theme that titillates with dark allusions to the present. Then there are Drury's characters, a confusion of ideological wind-up toys carelessly slapped down to accommodate the easily distracted. There are the plots that are not plots but crisis situations on "which each character is obliged to comment, regardless of the triviality...
Maybe it's because her husband neglected to kiss her goodbye one morning. Or maybe she overheard someone at the beach refer to her as "the blimp in the bikini." Whatever the reason, there comes a time in most every woman's life when she decides to reach for her tippy-toes instead of her potatoes. When she does, TV's proliferating exercise merchants are right there on the screen every morning to cheer...