funambulist
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Jay O. Sanders, her husband, is another dramatic funambulist who has appeared in all 12 plays.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
Philippe’s mentor is an irascible Czech funambulist played, as an irascible Czech funambulist in a movie of this kind must be played, by Ben Kingsley.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2015
People can walk up inside the Ruckus World Trade Center, looking at its "tenants," finally meeting a diminutive figure of the funambulist Philippe Petit walking the rope between the towers.
From Time Magazine Archive
It may astonish the reader to know that the funambulist or rope-dancer was very expert with the Greeks, as also was the acrobat between knives and swords.
From The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. by Anonymous
It rounds out completely our impression of watching the most expert funambulist in English letters.
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More
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