Word: ballooned
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Others choose a certain dream to make a statement about their lives. Juanita Reaves, 49, a mother with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, wished for the freedom of a hot-air-balloon ride with her family. Before the trip, she anticipated looking down on the countryside where she used to run, ride her bike and take walks. "My body is dying, but my mind still has a thirst for life," Reaves said in an e-mail. "I hope to show people with ALS and other disabilities that they don't have to be limited to ... only...
...with his hook. 12) Use dance-offs to resolve day-to-day conflicts. Invite spectators to join. 13) Do squats on John Harvard—fulfill a graduation requirement and appear in photo albums across Asia. 14) Convert dining tray conveyor belts into treadmills. 15) Host a condom water balloon fight. Supplies are available in your laundry room...
...models have to be thin. It's one of the cruelest axioms of fashion that once you get big, you can get big. If Tyra Banks shows up for a shoot with a little extra poundage, they just touch her up later. Kate Moss could, if she wished, balloon all the way up to 100 lbs., and she'd still get work. But little Nadya Abouttofallova eats one pork rind, and she's on the first plane back to Uzbekistan. It's hard to feel sympathy for people who make their living from being freakily beautiful, but come on, folks...
...just spent their summers in locales near and far bumped into each other—literally—for the first time this fall at a Friday evening carnival in Tercentenary Theatre. While families and a Ferris Wheel were nowhere to be found, revelers donning henna tattoos and balloon hats filled the Yard, as the three-hour event attracted 7,000 people, according to organizers’ estimates. “I’m so happy we’re all normal,” said Tiffany M. Bradshaw ’10. Students, faculty and staff tested their...
...world, but they gave Death of a President only lukewarm applause over the closing credits. They'd been so pumped up, I suspect, that the film itself almost had to be a letdown. Engrossing but not enthralling, Death of a President let the air out of its own balloon. It was hard not to be impressed by the expertise of the intercutting (archive footage, staged demonstrations and fictional interviews), by the seamlessness of the photo-realism and photoshopping. But this cleverness inevitably drew attention to itself and away from the subject. Those members of the film-savvy crowd who stayed...