Word: kites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shoppers discovered to their delight that abundant supplies of fresh fruit and vegetables had filtered through a leaky Israeli blockade posted along the Green Line that divides the capital. In the surrounding hills, Israeli soldiers played Ping Pong or strummed guitars to pass the idle hours. As a silver kite bobbed brightly in a stiff breeze, an Israeli officer sighed in amazement: "This is a surrealistic...
...Under normal conditions, it is easy to fly, no pilot's license is required, and the aircraft does not have to be certified or inspected. (The ultralight grew out of the hang glider and, so far, has been regarded benevolently by the Federal Aviation Administration as a motorized kite.) One of the most popular models, the Weedhopper, costs less than $5,000 in kit form and can be assembled like a Tinkertoy in eight to ten hours. It then can be partly disassembled to be carried on a cartop to the takeoff point. The Weedhopper has a rudder...
...Richard Allen, 46, is not acting out a parting suggestion from former Boss Ronald Reagan, 71. The ex-National Security Adviser, who resigned in January after the controversy over his handling of gifts from a Japanese magazine, was simply trying his own hand after judging a local kite-flying contest on Sanibel Island, Fla. "Kites can relax you, can adjust you," says Allen, who is now a political consultant and think-tank associate. He thought his own kite looked like the Pentagon, "but with one more angle." Said he: "It represents the Administration's six-sided strategic defense modernization...
With the publication of P.T. Barnum's autobiography in 1855, says Lindberg, the con man in America went public. The rush to grab land, swindle immigrants and kite stock gathered momentum. As a great showman, Barnum hoodwinked the suckers and made them like it. Who could hate a man able to move crowds by changing the exit sign to one that read, "This way to the Grand Egress." His book ratified cynicism as entertainment, if not instruction...
...used to be so simple. Winter meant Charlie Brown getting hit in the back of his smooth, round noggin with a fat snowball. Spring was Charlie Brown losing another battle with the kite-eating tree. By July, he was whiffing in the bottom of the ninth, and every autumn it was back-to-school love with the little red-haired girl...