Aoki used to fly around in a helium balloon shaped like a Benihana chef, and raced Benihana speedboats with bright red logos.
On propeller driven aircraft, balloon-like devices attached to the wings and tail are inflated and deflated with air from the engines, breaking up any ice accumulation.
The initial "push" upward by the cold front on that balloon filled with surface air is like a child letting a helium-filled balloon go -- it just keeps rising.
Kai-Lan makes the shape of a heart with her hands, sending a bright-red heart into the air like a balloon.
The industry has always been a bit like a balloon: squeeze it in one place and it expands in another.
The last time Tom Huddlestone played on artificial turf he was out for six weeks as his knee blew up like a balloon.
"He landed on John Brayford's foot in training, and his ankle went up like a balloon, " caretaker manager Dario Gradi told BBC Radio Stoke.
In an abdominal aortic aneurism, the aorta swells like a balloon.
The resulting competition is driving prices down for core MDM products, and, like a balloon being squeezed, is forcing the vendors in this market to offer additional capabilities to differentiate.
But stories like that don't just pop in front of you like a rogue balloon.
In photographs of his grade-school classes, he always looked out of place, his grinning, elephant-eared face floating like a parade balloon above the other kids in line.
Not surprisingly, when Ecuador announced that it was floating the sucre, the currency spiraled down like a deflated balloon -- just as had happened with the Asian currencies.
Mickelson's jokey comment that "Irish women are not that good looking" had gone down like a lead balloon and led to the then collegiate star having to make hurried apologies on the national airwaves.
But in 2009, some of the big ones rose like a hot air balloon.
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Sure, Apple shares had started to look like a helium-filled balloon, but simply eyeballing the chart makes for an incomplete analysis.
Minutes later I sat on the front stoop, and when the babysitter pushed the carriage around the corner, I felt a huge billowing of love that sat like a gigantic, soft helium balloon on my shoulders.
"It's like taking the air out of a balloon, " says Berish Strauch, academic chair and professor of plastic surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center.
Romp the throttle at mid-rpm in third gear and you'll get a huge, hydraulic shove in the back, like God has hit you with a water balloon.
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As the name suggests, the handhelds featured a clock and alarm but the real attraction was the games, which included titles like Donkey Kong, Mario Bros, and Balloon Fight.
When it got started, Broken Social Scene could balloon to 15 or more people on stage, operating much like a rock 'n' roll boot camp for musicians to collaborate and cut their teeth.
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If some wind shear would cross with another section a few hundred, or a thousand feet above it, you can end up in a condition where it'll actually cut like a knife, and slice the top of the balloon right off.
Also on hand, like a bad angel, is Jed (Rhys Ifans), who was there as the balloon crashed and who subsequently makes it his mission to stalk the unfortunate Joe, apparently in the name of love.
At the moment when just about any other band might launch into a big, song-like restatement of the melody, Pelican slows down, as if air is being let out of a balloon.
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