Word: circusing
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...know that we had done the trick." Actually, what the Flying Vazquezes accomplished together on July 10 in Tucson was much more than a trick. It was an athletic feat equivalent to the breaking of the 4-min. mile: the first quadruple somersault performed before a regular circus audience...
...brothers had managed the nearly impossible stunt ten times in practice sessions over the past year, and they had tried doing it at every performance since Dec. 29, when the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus opened its 112th season. Charley Baumann, the circus' performance director, had seen them fail so many times that he too was stunned when they finally succeeded. He ran to the phone and called the show's producers, Irvin and Kenneth Feld, in Washington. "They asked me why the hell I was calling after midnight," he told TIME's Paul Krueger...
When Prince Turki and Princess Hend moved to wealthy Indian Creek, neighbors were soon taken aback. The prince's small herd of goats began to roam onto adjacent lawns. Last spring the royal couple threw a party for their three-year-old son that featured circus performers, an orchestra, fireworks, kosher hot dogs and a birthday cake on which live flamingos perched. The final straw came when the prince and princess renovated their house-once the staid Woolworth mansion-in dissonant contemporary style, including a discothèque and a device that simulates thunder. "It looks," a local arbiter...
...NOTEBOOK Larson fanned six and walked none on route to picking up his fifth win, tops on the staff. Defensive Play of the Day goes to right fielder Dannic Allard, who in the sixth inning of the second game made a circus catch in the alley to rob Dartmouth's Pete Davery of a triple Shaken up on the play. Allard stayed in the game anyway. In the statistics department, team captam Chicarello tied the Harvard season record with 12 doubles in 1982. Catcher Vinnine Martelli had an RBI in the nightcap to give him 36 for the year, four...
...several directions, severed from the coach. If players are going to disregard a coach's strategy, they had better have a game plan of their own, but in this case they didn't. Five players on the court, each playing her own game, amounted to a confused and messy circus...