Then there is Lucy up there in a sequined thing, and, you know, she's a fabulous aerialist and acrobat.

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"I have a story just as good as 'Man on Wire' " the Chinn-produced documentary about aerialist Philippe Petit Mr. Bendjelloul recalls telling him.

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During a banquet scene when owls are supposed to descend ominously on the feast, an aerialist with owl talons appeared overhead, swinging on a sheet.

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Ms. Grace was trained as an aerialist and can also juggle as she proved when a couple of clowns meandered by and she borrowed their pins.

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The presence of light-struck wash drawings of cloud-borne figures and angels by Giambattista Tiepolo proposes a reading of Degas's aerialist as a modern-day, secular version of such imagery, clearly suspended from her clenched jaw, not divinely supported.

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