Green played a sailor named Ozzie, and Comden an anthropologist named Claire de Loon.

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The dollar with the loon on it is again being seen as a good Tier II reserve currency.

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Ms. COMDEN: (As Claire de Loon) (Singing) I try hard to stay controlled, but I get carried away.

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Ms. COMDEN: (As Claire de Loon) (Singing) But carried away, carried away.

NPR: Songwriter Betty Comden

Hans van Loon, the secretary general of The Hague regulatory body, highlights Guatemala, once the source of 5, 000 annual adoptions, mainly to America.

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While its first long-form studio album, Loon, showed influences of Pavement, Spoon, and the Pixies, Walk It Off showcases more personal flair, as inspired by producer David Fridmann ( The Flaming Lips, MGMT, Weezer).

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After the town's paper mill failed in the 1960s, a group of local investors led by Sherman Adams, one-time aide to President Eisenhower, developed a ski resort on Loon Mountain and turned Lincoln into a year-round recreation center.

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When a Florida developer cut down all the trees around what used to be a baseball field and started putting up condos -- "more of those damned chicken coops, " says Rick Kelley, Loon Mountain's general manager -- the town said, Enough.

FORBES: Local heroes

Ten years later, as a middle-class wife and mother, she's glad to leave her kids and her builder husband (John Travolta, looking like he walked into the wrong movie) the moment Eddie, discharged from the loony bin though still a loon, shows up to save her from bourgeois life.

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