Word: acrobatic
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Montana Miller '96 never thought her experience as an acrobat in a French circus would be handy in navigating around her Dunster House room...
These cloth shells also have their distinct grace. Several figures of circus performers, riding on iron-wire wheels, refer to Giacometti's famous charioteer and, through that, back to common sources in Etruscan antiquity; the precarious poise of the acrobat's body is part of Abakanowicz's general imagery of human vulnerability and risk...
Into this stuffy little domestic British world crashes a plane containing two aviators, Bunny's old college chum Joey Percival (Royal E. Miller) and a Polish acrobat named Lina Szczepanowska (played with panache by Candy Buckley). Hypatia seizes on Joey as her deus ex machina, and pursues him with all the zeal of a liberated woman...
...Miguel landed safely in the net, and we cheered. Television has done great damage to the circus business. The old circus owners knew that familiarity breeds poor ticket sales. They kept their side-show freaks from entering town so residents could not stare for free. The feats of the acrobat or juggler on the glowing screen seem disconnected from reality. Anything is possible on television, and the difficult appears commonplace...
...relatives are no longer satisfied with my standard "what-I-will-do-when-I-grow-up" speech. And I'm not sure I still want to be a police officer or an acrobat...