Word: aerialiste
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...Russian gymnacrobats begin their act by holding themselves in the air at arm's length from vertical poles while they spin around in circles, smiling. An alpine aerialist climbs a high wire 45° steep with two women standing on his head. Four girls in sequined lavender bikinis dance on a big coffee table, going through motions that could be called sexnastics...
...face in the pin spots, she is part of a freshman class that includes East Germany's Prince Von, who puts skates on his hands and glides down two wires from roof to floor, and Mexico's Señor Antonio, the first aerialist in Ringling history to consent to do a hand stand while swinging on a trap bar at the top of the arena. As a child of the circus, Vicki Unus is proud to be La Toria and take her place among them-and among such old B.&B. stars as Harold Alzana, the high...
...played Impresario Sol Hurok's wife in a George Jessel-produced turkey called Tonight We Sing. She played a Roman lady in Demetrius and the Gladiators, a Civil War widow, a carnival aerialist, a gangster's daughter and an interminable list of Indian girls. For one movie (The Last Frontier), with Robert (Music Man) Preston, Anne even became a blonde...
...play begins, Pierrot (Kelly) appears in his baggy white costume to open the program of a teatro circo, an Italian traveling circus. With the stilted gestures of mimetic tradition, he tells of his hopeless love for the leading lady of the troupe (Sombert), hopeless because she loves the daring aerialist (Youskevitch...
...cities. For a business whose methods have changed little since its cheap-labor heyday, the cost of moving from town to town has become prohibitive. On top of that, today's children, surfeited with TV tinsel, no longer quicken to the real-life roar of lions, the aerialist's heart-stopping plunge. "Suckers may still be born every minute," epitaphed a circusman in Manhattan last week, "but TV gets 'em first...