Word: acrobatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humor of Hope as a balcony acrobat, for instance, has to be shown, even on the screen, more by what he says than in what he does. Give him a good line and he can throw it away with the electric unconcern of a stripper discarding the semifinal spangle, but it is not much fun when there is nothing in the line worth noticing. Typical Casanova gag line: ''Women are like oranges. When you've squeezed one. you've squeezed them...
Harry runs the Green Glade like a fiscal acrobat, balancing it on a tightrope of mortgages, bank loans, big and little deals...
...exaggerations in her performance are typical of the acting throughout. Katherina Sergava, as a masculine lady acrobat, is Shaw's burlequed version of a superwoman. Between escaping from one attempted seduction and another, she delivers an impassioned polemic on the evils of love, one of the highpoints of the evening...
...their histories; it excludes women in prison because their stories differed too widely from women in ordinary life Included are females aged 2 to 90 (little girls' apparent sexual responses were reported by adults), from a wide variety of social, economy, and cultural backgrounds. Sample occupations-acrobat, archeologist, auditor, barmaid, chemist, dentist, dice girl, governess, laundress lawyer, missionary, politician, puppeteer, probation officer, prostitute, riveter, robber, social worker soda jerker, teacher, typist, U.N. delegate, WAC. *Less inhibited were some noted teenagers of the past. Says Kinsey: "Helen was twelve years old when Paris carried her off from Sparta Daphnis...
...Angelo himself did not even suspect his powers until he was well into manhood. A poor boy who never got beyond the third grade, he was an acrobat and stilt-walker in a circus until one day in 1934, when he fell off his stilts and broke his skull. When he came to, as he tells it now, he amazed both himself and his nurse by his clairvoyant ability to recite her past. He set himself up in a back street as the Mago di Napoli and practiced clairvoyance...