Word: acrobatically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Joshua Quittner. "The stocks have doubled for every internet-related company over the past year." Butis Netscape, as many investors hope, the next Microsoft? Much like Microsoft did with its Windows operating system, Quittner notes, "Netscape is like this big blob that just absorbs everything -- Real Audio and Adobe Acrobat are two examples -- into its system. And Netscape has had a pretty big start on every one else in the browser business...
...point, to its earliest mission of blending circus with theater. And if the meta-Broadway superproduction Mystere is the most theatrical of Cirque shows so far, Alegria is the most circusy, the most intimate, traditional, European. Though it boasts wondrous sets and costumes -- an aviary motif with acrobat birds in brilliant plumage -- it is dominated by the clowns, most of them Russian, with a dolorous wit and poignant stories to tell. In one sketch a clown-bird perches alone on a telegraph wire (a rope stretched across the stage) enjoying his solitude until another arrives; it is a French existential...
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...