Word: acrobatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agreeable currency-exchange rate--Julia has dragged her kids from chilly London to sunny Marrakech, where she vaguely hopes to achieve spiritual transcendence by linking up with the mystical Sufi sect. Unfortunately, the support checks from the girls' faraway father arrive only erratically. Julia takes up with a sometime acrobat named Bilal (Said Taghmaoui), whose charm is matched by his fecklessness. They are all blown this way and that by minor mishaps, passing acts of grace, and the suspense of the movie derives from our wondering whether Julia will come to her senses before irretrievable disaster overtakes these innocent adventurers...
...three artists--Matt Saunders '97, Yuh-Shioh Wong '99 and Emily Hass, a graduate student of design--and the project's only remaining problem was a lack of funds. "We couldn't spend any money at all," says Saunders, who based his piece on a 1940s film of an acrobat biting through a chain. The installation includes one large painting and four peepholes. "Construction barriers are strange things," Saunders comments. "You always want to see what's inside." Indeed, Rothkopf's goal was to give passersby something to look at beyond the construction. Or, perhaps, on the construction--Wong painted...
Technology may define the show but does not dominate it; O swims and soars to its own uniquely beguiling rhythm. The individual acts summon innocent gasps from the crowd. How can one acrobat hang so gracefully from another when the two are attached only by their feet? How can one trapeze artist catch another when their apparatus, a ghostly pirate ship in midair, is rocking so vigorously? How does a little princess balance on her head while her trapeze bar revolves high over the pool? And that fellow reading a newspaper--doesn't he realize that his hat, shoes, pants...
Ever since he first pulled on Patriots colors last summer, Glenn has been causing more than a few defensive backs to consider other lines of work. His hands are as sticky as a bank teller's. He has an acrobat's balance and explosive acceleration to boot, making him all but impossible to run down when he snags the ball. He also has a way of rising to an occasion: during the Pats' playoff-clinching 34-10 victory over the Jets last December he made seven catches. If all this sounds more like a mature player than a rookie...
...wasn't an acrobat, but she wasn't a dead fish either." --Dennis Rodman on Madonna in his autobiography...