Word: acrobatics
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Helio Pena (acrobat) -- Originally from Portugal, Pena has travelled by way of Canada to juggle fire for the kids. He usually performs on Sunday on the raised area in front of Paperback Booksmith...
...financial transactions make the phrase "filthy lucre" seem quaint. He spends in a slack-jawed trance usually associated with pornography. Wads of currency go for hogsheads of alcohol and composts of fast food. His car, an overpriced Fiasco, is nearly as costly to keep as Selina Street, a sexual acrobat and shakedown artist whose faked orgasms excite Self more than the real thing...
Other personalities are a little more adventuresome: the sedate Dick Cavett appears as a circus acrobat, Liv Ulmann becomes a, Erte' print, Jean Marsh strips down to a mega-clcavaged chef, and Chita Rivera reincarnates as Jean Harlow. Every one of them wearing red shoes and synopsized by an National Enquirer cutline. Two particularly obnoxious examples...
...polishing epigrams and tiptoeing into one another's penthouse souls. Stoppard's characters have always been able to skate on their plays' surfaces with Olympic-gold dexterity; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers and Travesties long ago established him as the modern stage's star acrobat of language and ideas. But The Real Thing also has a heart-warm and throbbing with the domestic passion to which anyone, even an intellectual playwright, can happily succumb...
Gravity Boots were invented in 1965 by Dr. Robert Martin, 73, Bryce Martin's father. An orthopedic surgeon and onetime vaudeville acrobat, the elder Martin developed the boots to relieve the stress on spines and joints caused by standing and sitting. "I always told my colleagues that we'd all have better posture and no back problems if we could walk around on the ceiling," he says. "It was just a matter of figuring...