Word: juggler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...safely in the net, and we cheered. Television has done great damage to the circus business. The old circus owners knew that familiarity breeds poor ticket sales. They kept their side-show freaks from entering town so residents could not stare for free. The feats of the acrobat or juggler on the glowing screen seem disconnected from reality. Anything is possible on television, and the difficult appears commonplace...
...kind of work that requires this father of two to be part policeman, part troubleshooter, part juggler and very much a diplomat. "I walk a beat," Oliver explains, "talking to editors, checking in with the art department, seeing where the snags are in the week's flow." If a late-breaking story requires us to work on some pages later than usual, he makes certain that others are finished ahead of time so the magazine closes on schedule...
Theme-park actors do not, to be sure, make much use of training in Shakespeare or Method-style character analysis. But they say acting study helps nonetheless. Kevin Kraft, 22, is a University of Southern California junior in his second summer as a clown and juggler at Hersheypark; he has also toured with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Says Kraft: "If I pretend in slow motion to grab for a nonexistent ball, I'd better have a real intention to catch it, which is acting technique, or the comedy falls flat...
...performers don't even know each other," said Alexander Feldman, a local juggler, adding that not having to refer to someone as "the guy with the long hair who plays guitar" would improve relations among the artists...