Word: juggler
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Like many variety shows, Laugh-In features new talent-except that the talent is deliberately askew: a virtuoso on the kazoo, a birdcall impressionist, or an all-thumbs juggler. It was in one such segment, for example, that the show inflicted on a helpless nation that hitherto unknown dingaling, Tiny...
...work benches. The 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew was lifted. Nightclubs and cinemas reopened. One showed My Fair Lady, but another slyly screened The Good Soldier Schweik. Svelte bar girls in scalloped miniskirts or skintight trousers flitted through the cocktail lounge at Prague's Esplanade Hotel. The juggler was even back in action at Prague's Tetran club, though he tended to drop more plates than usual...
...seven years since he first began soldering his elfin evocations of the machine age, Günter Haese has become one of West Germany's best-known artists. Critics rave about his "artistic equilibrium," trace his lineage to Paul Klee, and dub him "the juggler of modern art." He was given a one-man show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1964, helped represent West Germany at the 1966 Venice Biennale. Last month his open cube of wire-works and quivering copper balls, Olymp, became one of the four purchase awards winners at the Guggenheim...
...works to support himself, asks: "Why should I have a lot of money? What would I do with it? Pay high taxes? We are happy this way." He even spurns offers from friends to sample the delights of caviar or champagne. "It would-only disturb our equilibrium," explains the juggler of modern...
Emerson said that the only true gift is a gift of self. All the greatest presents bear him out, whether it is Cleopatra offering herself to Caesar wrapped in a rug, or-on a more spiritual plane-the Juggler of Our Lady giving all he has: his little art. Not everyone can offer his own composition, as Richard Wagner did when he gave the Siegfried Idyll to his wife. But the art of giving would be immensely enhanced if more people today took whatever skill and time they had to make gifts themselves...