Robbins is short and compact, and he has the wiry physique of an acrobat beneath the softness of a few extra pounds.

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The game will feature new storylines where the player will be able to rise to fame as an acrobat, singer, magician or a DJ.

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The sullen French actor and longtime Carax collaborator Denis Lavant, trained as an acrobat, enters a stretch limo, only to emerge as an elderly and infirm woman begging along the Seine.

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After five years working as an acrobat on his first show, the gymnast hurt his back and needed a break, so took a job as a coach for one of Cirque's traveling shows in Europe.

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"Bello Mania" includes a slideshow paying tribute to his mother and father, an Italian acrobat and Swiss tightrope artist who met while touring with Ringling Bros. during the 1950s.

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"You're an analytics acrobat, " said I recently over breakfast.

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For every thousand people who watch a Flash clip online or fill out an online Adobe Acrobat Reader tax form (without paying), there's a Web programmer or graphic designer who paid several hundred dollars for the right to create that digital content using Adobe's multimedia production and editing tools such as Flash, Acrobat, Illustrator and Photoshop.

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But there's no complete printed manual, only an electronic one that requires Adobe's Acrobat software to read, and which I found awkward to use.

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In all of us who perform there is an awareness of the smile which is part of the equipment, or gift, of the acrobat.

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