Word: juggler
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...these separate acts are interspersed and punctuated by the subdued gesturing of Oleg Popov, who is celebrated as one of the world's great clowns. A thoroughly trained circus performer, he can walk the tightwire or the slack wire; he is both animal trainer and juggler. He takes no pratfalls, and he is not the sad flopsy-mopsy fopsy that most U.S. clowns make themselves, but it is difficult to see why he is so renowned. Hailed as a star, he is really little more than a mildly engaging filler...
Waring is not the work of a young man trying to find his way: Powell is already the detached, well-informed, amused observer, a masterful mimic and the most shameless juggler of coincidence since Dickens...
...circular chain reaction. Every nucleus of carbon and nitrogen in the sun returns to its pure state once in five million years." This is ingenious rather than convincing, provocative rather than wise. And in his secret heart, Eliot knows it for the word game it is. But like the juggler who danced before the altar, Eliot is giving praise to the wonder of creation...
...other playwrights were committed to realism or surrealism. Fry wrote romantic and imaginative drama; where poetry had been banished from the stage so severely that even T. S. Eliot toned his verse plays down to almost imperceptibly heightened prose. Fry flashed his poetry with the joy of a juggler...
Died. Jimmy Savo (born Sava), 64, gifted vaudeville and Broadway pantomimist of the 19205 and 19305 who made famous his baggy pants and his expression of wile-eyed innocence; of a heart attack; in Terni, Italy. Breaking in as an amateur juggler before the age of ten, the Bronx-born comic sometimes broke his eloquent silence, as in his famed renditions of River, Stay 'Way from My Door and One Meat Ball, hit his Broadway peak in 1938 in The Boys from Syracuse, in 1946 made a nightclub comeback following a leg amputation for a malignant tumor...