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Anderson and his son Kristian, 23, laid claim to another major record last week: the first balloon crossing of North America. Their craft was the Kitty Hawk, a 75-ft. teardrop of fragile polyethylene filled with 200,000 cu. ft. of helium. Dangling from the balloon was an 11-ft. by 5-ft. red, white and blue gondola. It carried the Andersons and 5,000 lbs. of ballast and supplies, including ten radios, a folding cot, a backgammon board and a week's worth of fried chicken, peanut butter and chocolate-chip cookies...
...Montserratian and the reply will be "Me dey easy" (I'm easy) in an Irish brogue. The teardrop-shaped, 39½-sq.-mi. atoll (pop. 12,000) calls itself the Emerald Isle of the Car ibbean because it was largely settled by Irish Roman Catholic refugees starting in 1632. Montserrat's blacks, now 90% of the population, have owned their land since the early 19th century. They are very much in command of Erin West, and as cheery as their Connemara cousins...
...showed me real people for the first time; real people crying and laughing at the same time with mass outbursts of all their excitement and it was Absolute Reality: hair being torn from the roots, cops being ruffled, clothes ripped from backs as souvenirs, runaways jumping from roofs, a teardrop on the still asphalt upon which heroes had just trodden, and the helicopter took them back to studioland. The music was the reality, at a time when not even the ongoing war could captivate and stir so many of its sufferers until years after the music itself had arrived...
Stacy is 18, a high school senior in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Now she pulls on blue jeans, a sports shirt, and ties her curly hair back with a scarf. She wears a tiny teardrop ring to show that she is engaged, but her fiance is not making this trip. Stacy and her mother set out on the 45-minute subway ride from their home to the Eastern Women's Center clinic on Manhattan's East 60th Street. They do not speak to each other on the crowded train. That whole week, for that matter, they...
...women--I never felt I would be able to feel sorry for anyone who would title their autobiography Reflections in a Crystal Teardrop, but Joan Baez manages to come out from under the weight of Dylan's cynicism with her dignity intact. There is one long scene--perhaps we could call it "Diamonds and Rust Comes to the Silver Screen"--in which Baez and Sara stage a tug of war over the bemused Renaldo. Sara is shown as a made-up 35-year-old housewife, a sort of pushy Zelda Sayre; it is hard to believe that Dylan could have...