Word: jugglers
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...wasn't Stockman fired? Because if you have the books juggled, but don't understand the numbers, you better hang on to the juggler...
...FRONT of Holyoke Center, a man and a woman played a bass fiddle and an electric dulcimer. In the entry of the Cambridge Savings Bank, a man picked a guitar and hummed blues on a harmonica. In front of Out of Town News, a juggler spun three balls and told bad jokes. A string quartet sat in the entrance at the Coop and sawed at classical tunes. Little knots of people gathered around each performance, and those walking the block-long stretch moved slowly through, leaving one show and attaching themselves to the crowd at the next, walking from...
...danger is that they will push their advantage too far, with the result that hard-liners will once again take over the Communist Party. Party moderates hope to appease the unions and please Moscow, while also looking to the West for financial help. Unhappily, that is rather like a juggler tossing vials of nitroglycerine...
...record album, A Wild and Crazy Guy. He had heard about these absolutely disgusting exhibitions that were being held in Mexico, he said. Cat juggling. "They take the little kitties ..." It is funny, because it calls to mind a bizarre vision of serious cats slashing at a demented Mexican juggler, while an audience of gringo tourists giggles obscenely. The cruelty that would be involved in actually juggling cats is not offensive, partly because Martin mutes it by hysterically expressing his own disgust...
There's a cat-juggling scene in The Jerk, the first movie in which Martin has starred, and although it is a direct cinematic translation of the record album sketch, it does not work very well. The kittens used by the juggler (a gent listed in the credits as Pig Eye Jackson) seem pretty confused, and they don't do much except twist a little in the air. Martin expresses his ambivalent disgust, but since he helped write the screenplay, and since real kittens, no doubt much confused, must have been used to film the sequence, the moviegoer...