Word: acrobatic
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...months, reports Lewis, the President had been defending his Viet Nam policies by repeating what Lincoln once said to a group of critics during the Civil War. Likening himself to a French acrobat named Blondin who was famed for crossing Niagara Falls on a tight rope, Lincoln asked: "Suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had to put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across Niagara. Would you shake the cable, or-keep shouting at him, 'Blondin, stand up a little straighter - Blondin, stoop a little more - lean a little more...
...Show program is still alliterative: "Extraordinary Equine Exhibition! Res-inback Riders and Revelers! Trilogy of Teeterboard Terrors!" And the circus' biggest acts are still those with negative benefits: a Siberian tiger named King rides around on a horse named Tiger and does NOT eat him; a Mexican acrobat does a triple somersault-the one that gave Burt Lancaster all that trouble in Trapeze-and does NOT fall: Helena Rassy's pastel-dyed pigeons are released from the balcony and flutter down to her and NOT into the crowd...
...last month jammed the Longshoremen's Auditorium for a three-day happening, or "trip." Slides of pop and op art were flashed on and off the walls and ceiling. Onstage a woman in a negligee was bombarded with raw eggs, a stark-naked Negro beat the drums, an acrobat bounced on the trampoline. Without letup, pounding music exploded in the eardrums and blurred reason. Most spectators joined in the fun. One wore a toga made from an American flag, another sported a sign reading: "You're in the Pepsi generation, I'm a pimply freak." A girl...
...Nero Over Me." Born in 1903 near Chillicothe, Ohio, Beatty raised rabbits, guinea pigs and skunks as a boy, at 15 responded to the lure of the circus by signing up as a $3-a-week helper. His goal was to be an acrobat, until he twisted an ankle, got a chance to fill in on a polar bear act ("a bear will bite you ten times to a big cat's one"), and began his career as an animal trainer...
...walking along the gravel driveway at Hyde Park photographing the ground in jerks, sways and clumsy lurches. Later, when Roosevelt becomes a gubernatorial candidate, the narrator points out that Republicans raised the cripple issue but Al Smith killed it, saying "A Governor does not have to be an acrobat." And what do you suppose leaps to the screen? A whole big top full of circus acrobats who swing and soar and throw triples for what seems like five solid minutes while the point sinks...