Sometimes the risky writer stumbles in his funambulist guise, and you wonder if he's about to dive into the drink. |
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As soon as I realized that it was necessary to be gifted in math to be a vet in the bush, and that I felt too dizzy to be a funambulist! |
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As a professional funambulist, I regularly stretch a cable between two buildings. |
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For its centenary, Philippe Petit, a funambulist, walked on a tight rope stretched between the Eiffel Tower and the Palais de Chaillot at the Trocadero. |
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The 34-year-old, a member of the funambulist family the Flying Wallendas, said this stunt will be more thrilling that the last. |
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And on Wednesday, local authorities on the Canadian side said no to Nik Wallenda, the seventh-generation funambulist who had sought to be the first man, woman or child to tiptoe above the rushing gorge in more than a century. |
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Tossed by the wind, thrown to the ground like a rag or rising like a flame, this funambulist performed a mad pantomime that amazed and elicited admiration. |
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Commonly found in circuses, how is a funambulist better known? |
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A female funambulist, Maria Spelterini, on various occasions tightrope-walked across the Niagara Gorge with peach baskets on her feet, blindfolded, or manacled. |
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