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...full twirls and catches her legs on the side straps. The unicycle duo (strong Yuri Shavro, supple Diana Aleschenko) perform an apache while wheeling around the stage; then she doughnuts herself around his head. Zhang Gongli stacks four, six, eight chairs, one balanced on another, and does a handstand on the top of the pyramid. Anthony Gatto, a showman with a plethora of panache, tosses and catches seven balls, seven hoops, an alley's worth of bowling pins; he's simply the best juggler ever. And in an act already used to sensational effect in Ka, Jimmy Ibarra and Carlos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cirque du Soleil's Clowning Kooza | 4/25/2009 | See Source »

...idea to fill Adams Art Space with thousands of balloons was conceived by Will M. Skinner ’09, who was doing a handstand amidst the balloons when I approached him. Wading through the chest-high sea of balloons, I asked him what had inspired the project. Skinner, a sprightly Adams House senior with a puckish smile, told me, “I have a lot of free time on my hands...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Have a Ball Among 6000 Balloons | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

...adding, "Apparently - and it's possible I'm misinterpreting a cultural trend here - if you strap your best friend to the hood of a '72 Ford Falcon, drive it over a cliff, juggle three babies and a chain saw on the way down and land safely while performing a handstand, they'll tape it, show it and call it a new sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The X Games | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

...stands on a railing at the edge of a platform some 20 feet (6-m) above a north London stage. Back-flipping to the ground, he scrambles atop a wall, and, after somersaulting off that, bounds onto a ledge before leaping to the ground again, landing in a perfect handstand. Over earsplitting cheers from the audience, the MC gives his verdict: "That," he said, "was ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free Running Jumps onto World Stage | 9/5/2008 | See Source »

...half the entrees in the dining hall and Felipe’s is sort of a let down. But non-beer drinkers have it even worse. Imagine being veg and going to a party to toss ping pong balls into cups of ground beef, or doing a handstand over a keg of steak, or entering a lottery to win a stein of foie gras. It’s simply outrageous...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles and Emma M. Lind | Title: A Beer a Day… | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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