Word: acrobatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard encountered another acrobat two weeks ago in the Beanpot's opening round when Ned Yetten of B.C. repeatedly denied close-in bids. Largely because of illness and injury, Harvard could not keep up the same kind of sustained attack against Yale that eventually dented Yetten for 11 goals. The Crimson's attack degenerated into one-man sallies instead of the crisp passing and fast skating that is ordinarily the key to Harvard's attack...
ALFREDO ALFREDO has Dustin Hoffman looking squirrelly and speaking Italian. More exactly, it is spoken for him, in a dubbed voice that is not synchronized to his lip movements but superimposed on them. Robbing an actor of his voice is like chopping off an acrobat's legs. Hoffman remains undaunted, even though watching him is like seeing Jerry Mahoney doing a solo...
...over 20 years since Burt Lancaster appeared in one of the most infectiously giddy of all adventure films, The Crimson Pirate, bounding over battlements, leaping from one mast of a frigate to another. That movie seemed molded, in part, around his early training as an acrobat, to which he added his own vaunting energy. Lancaster's ebullient stunts, their seeming spontaneity and gleeful effortlessness, made him seem like a scruffier, scrappier Douglas Fairbanks...
Shadow Boxing. One of the troupe's most extraordinary acts is the longpole trick. One acrobat casually balances a 16-ft. bamboo pole between his shoulder and chin. A second climbs aboard, shins up to the top, and once there slowly swings his legs out parallel to the ground. Putting one foot in a velvet loop attached to the pole, he stands, then reaches down to a third acrobat, and the two perform a series of elaborate hand-to-hand exercises...
...their joinery, are virtually illustrations of the American grain). From his constructions emanates a wild, laconic humor that is the obverse of puritan sensibility. But the environment that Westermann's images suggest has also to do with rootlessness: carnival sideshows-he was at one time a professional acrobat-and the miniature theater of penny arcades...