Word: jugglers
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...Peter D. Panic, a Harvard Square street juggler who was playing baseball in the common yesterday, the sight of a muddy park inspires theatrical notions...
...Fellow juggler Daniel J. Foley says the best strategy in muddy sports situations is to rough it out. "Stop lachrymating," Foley says. "Just play the game...
...case against Peter Shaffer is well established. Shaffer himself has presented it, in such hugely successful plays as Equus (1973), Amadeus (1979) and Lettice and Lovage (1987). He is stagy, melodramatic, given to portentous evocations of myth, an obsessive juggler of the duality between head and heart, reason and inspiration, ordered restraint and exalted excess. Of course the same plays, viewed from another angle, make a strong case in Shaffer's favor. He is intensely theatrical, intellectually provocative, inventive with plot and setting despite the single-mindedness of his themes -- in short, entertaining and fascinating even at his most over...
...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...