The studio also enlisted the parade balloon of Po from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to tour in six cities, concluding with Los Angeles over Memorial Day weekend in late May 2011.

It's no fun picking on him," says Mr. Gallo, who often depicted Mr. Steinbrenner as a parade balloon crowned with a military helmet.

One example here is a boxy portrait of Gertrude Stein, whose stocky, armchair-ensconced figure floats out from the wall like a parade balloon.

Or was this some kind of big illusion, just a parade balloon with nothing inside?

To this end, we tried to arrive while the giant parade balloons were being inflated by scores of all-night helium experts.

After defeating his second form, Jasper becomes a giant parade balloon, which Henry refuses to fight and destroys the roof with one swipe.

He enjoyed a moment of contemplation, imagining his father as a parade balloon and Burgoyne as Ichabod Crane.

The owners stuck their heads in the sand while their players grew bulkier and bulkier, like parade balloons being pumped full of helium.

Many prints are made to be cut and folded into children's-book-style pop-up scenes or three-dimensional volumes, as in a boxy portrait of Gertrude Stein that looks like a parade balloon.

To the consternation of neighborhood preservationists, the awnings are usually topped by a white to-go-style coffee cup, a yard wide and 44 inches high, perched over the entrance like a parade balloon gone astray.