Word: stools
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Most of the acts are of a homier nature, however; their aim is to charm rather than amaze. Tarra the elephant plays a harmonica, hits a tambourine and dances atop a stool on two front feet; the Bertinis do figure eights and other intricate maneuvers on unicycles; and the two clowns turn out to be superb jugglers. One of the advantages of a small space-the single ring is only 42 ft. in diameter-is that the audience can become involved. At each show one of the clowns plucks children from their seats to lead the band. Though...
This time Matthau is a career assassin, eradicating Mob stool pigeons with the weary professionalism of a top C.P.A., and Lemmon, a network censor and a jilted husband poised to end his misery in suicide. They meet on their mutual missions, in a hotel room. For Matthau it is loathe at first sight; for Lemmon it is a last grab at camaraderie before lights out. See how they run on the treadmill of French farce, tripping over each other's discomfort, overdosing on the crudest twists of plot...
...next year, she is arrested, hauled off to the Bastille, kidnaped, ravished and accused of being a witch. In the gallows scene Lesley-Anne was forced to stand with a noose around her neck and her hands tied behind her back while she balanced atop a two-foot-high stool on a platform 15 feet above the ground. All this while Quasimodo, the hunchback bell ringer, played by Anthony Hopkins, 43, clumsily scrambled about trying to free her. "Anthony is no stunt man," says Lesley-Anne, "and the makeup job left him with just one eye open...
Most elderly Americans traditionally believe that security in their later years rested on a three-legged stool of Social Security, private pensions and savings. An average retired couple has an income of about $14,700 per year, of which 33% comes from Social Security, 13% from private pensions and 17.5% from savings, stocks or other assets. But now that stool looks shakier than a dairy farmer's milking perch...
With two of the three legs of the retirement stool wobbly, people are looking more closely at their private pension programs. There are about half a million private employer pension plans that cover more than 75% of America's nonfarm workers over age 25. Unlike Social Security, private pension plans are not directly affected by the problem of the aging labor force because companies build up their employees' retirement funds during the employees' working years. Explains Barnet Berin, of William M. Mercer, a New York-based compensation consulting firm: "The private pension system puts in contributions that...