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...that will plant another 100 BUSH FOR PRESIDENT signs along Highway 90. The others head for the the Mississippi Coast Coliseum to inflate 1,000 red, white and blue helium balloons. They work in the men's bathroom, where the ceiling is low enough to allow the balloons to float within reach. Logistics are controlled by Washington: the balloons have been sent down to Biloxi by Federal Express...
...characters, the relentless chronicling of Artie an Angela's relationship--from inception to ride-off-in-the-sunset ending--Arts and Sciences is at best uninspired and only mildly amusing. And though it may quote Greek and allude to Keats, Mallon's novel remains a mainstream work. Let it float...
...minister, flanked by a Confederate flag, conducts a memorial service for the sons and daughters of the Old South who are buried in the adjacent cemetery. The scent of warm corn bread and fried chicken wafts from a nearby picnic table. Strains of the Battle Hymn of the Republic float with gentle familiarity through the heavy air. Only the fact that it is sung in Portuguese seems inappropriate. But, in fact, it is fitting because this get-together occurs some 5,000 miles below the Mason-Dixon line, just outside a southern Brazilian city called Americana...
...unable or unwilling even to start working out some long-range solution to its gargantuan budget and trade deficits? As last week's wild price whipsawing demonstrated, no one can predict stock prices and volume for even a few hours. But if the U.S. continues to float on a sea of red ink and foreign debt -- well then, many financial experts suggest, sooner or later the markets can expect the real crash. How it could be much worse than Black Monday is as difficult to imagine as was Black Monday itself just days before. But the world had better hope...
...tank and transporting it to the town dump. But, he said, it was just a . . . well, prevarication to say that hauling his load of "thirty years of family history" (nice phrase), he made a wrong turn and ran smack-dab into the National Guard tank that was Carla's float in the parade...