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...have things that will amaze you!" he exclaims. "That will astound you!" And indeed there are a couple of amazing, astounding acts. Philippe Petit, the French tightrope walker, does all that can be done on a tightrope but fall asleep; the Gaonas, who may be the best trapeze artists in the world (and who for many years appeared with the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus), force oohs and ahs out of the most jaded spectators; and the Back Street Flyers, six male acrobats from Harlem, show that the most plastic instrument on earth is the human body...
...confrontational" role expected of the avantgarde. Today Morandi's renunciation of the art world as a system seems noble, exemplary and perhaps inimitable. He disdained all ambitions that could not be internalized, as pictorial language, within his art. This earned him the reputation in some quarters of a petit maítre: a man who, though he said it very well had only one limited thing...
They had their chances. They picked up a man advantage with 2:14 left in the game when DarryII (Antonio Inoki) Petit was forced to serve his 23rd and 24th minutes this short season in the Brown penalty box for an illegal cross check...
Brown (1-3 ECAC, 2-4 overall) will look to repeat its destruction of Harvard's season. The Bruins are led by junior forward Frank Carnevale (4-5-9), and co-captains Bryan Price (4-3-7) and defenseman Darrell Petit (2-5-7), the only seniors on the varsity...
Blotto, The Graphics and Petit Mal--the Rat The Suburbs and Sex-Execs--Streets, 1239 Commonwealth Ave., Boston...