funambulism

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Why didn't Man on Wire's Philippe Petit put the "fun" back in funambulism by tiptoeing up to the stage from the farthest balcony?

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  • Why didn't Man on Wire's Philippe Petit put the "fun" back in funambulism by tiptoeing up to the stage from the farthest balcony? —  GreenCine Daily
  • Delegates ranged from experienced academics and practitioners to students and curious employers attracted by the range of practical workshops, papers and poster presentations, on subjects as diverse as using positive psychology to create constructive workplace conversations to its role in funambulism, —  Positive Psychology News Daily
  • In dancing it is but too common that an intricate _pas seul_, in funambulism that a dangerous feat of equilibration, in the Grecian art of _desultory_ equitation —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
 

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  1. Latin funambul-us, a rope-walker, + -ism.
 

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