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...resemble nothing so much as a final exam in a rough but enjoyable course. The whole brief experience revolves around the week-long foreplay, foreplay, the loud ubiquitous hoopla perfected by Kentuckians years before the networks even started researching it. Barbecaes, races of everything from riverboats to hot-air balloons, beauty contests, and constant parties follow one another with dizzying speed and profusion. By the time the frazzled and usually drunken Derbygoer makes it to the Big Event itself (which comes, by the way, after a full slate of seven or eight races) he mostly feels a vague desire simply...
...think could be--I think you can legitimately defend a reporter's source privilege--but in fact the press advanced it in the most incredibly high-toned terms... They've built up a backlog of incredulity amongst judges, where the judge says. "Oh, here comes the newspaper with the hot-air argument again...
...were just nice and convenient. Example: medicine cabinets that light up when touched. Still another: a hot-air popper for gourmet popcorn. Earlier models did not work with such popcorn because of extra moisture in the corn...
Hart's campaign last week was a string of photo opportunities. He tooled around San Diego harbor in an experimental boat and climbed into the gondola of a bright yellow-and-blue hot-air balloon at a balloon fiesta in Albuquerque (gusty winds kept the craft from getting off the ground). In speeches Hart presents himself as the thoughtful leader discussing issues of the future, delivering detailed proposals on voting procedures in Grand Junction, Colo., on women's rights in Albuquerque, on nuclear-arms control in Santa Barbara...
...week, in Brazil's biggest public demonstration ever. An estimated 1 million people swarmed into the plaza that surrounds Rio's Candelária Church, raising clenched fists and chanting "Diretas já!" Yet at times the six-hour rally had the flavor of carnaval, with a hot-air balloon, a laser light show and strains of a samba beat. Shortly after nightfall, politicians and major Brazilian entertainers brought the crowd to fever pitch with passionate speeches and songs. Declared Leonel Brizola, governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro: "The history of Brazil will be divided between...