At the center of this is Acrobat DC, a new version of Acrobat for the desktop, web and mobile that will include free e-signing tools based on Adobe EchoSign and quite a bit of smart image-handling and OCR technology.
But in his acceptance speech last night, Mr. Gersten simply paid tribute to the cast of "Contact," calling the dancers "the true acrobats of the gods".
The contortionists and acrobats of the Australian company Circa don't shy from sadomasochism, either: in their self-titled show, at the Doris Duke, a woman in stilettos walks all over a man.
We become futuristic acrobats of the high tech and the extreme, rather than yesterday's stodgy pillars of the community, dispensing advice and lozenges, a silver-haired presence to steady any uncertainty.
Hummingbirds are the acrobats of the avian family flapping their wings more than 45 times a second, they hover forward, backward, and even upside down.
Before the acrobats of Parkour and the gonzo activists of free-running, before the situationist-anarchists of skateboarding in California's Dogtown, who covertly drained suburban swimming-pools to ride their sky-blue curves, there was Philippe Petit.
Robbins is short and compact, and he has the wiry physique of an acrobat beneath the softness of a few extra pounds.
Lead singer Bono was influenced by the work of Delmore Schwartz when writing the lyrics of "Acrobat", to whom the song is dedicated.
Ballet of the Théâtre du Châtelet as stars Acrobats of the Folies Bergère as Selenites When asked in 1930 what inspired him for A Trip to the Moon, Méliès credited Jules Verne's novels From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon.
Kano is a veritable verbal acrobat, while the spectrum of backing sounds is impressively diverse - slugs of rock guitar, squelching synths, clattering breakbeats.
