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tightrope act

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tightrope act
n (lit, fig)Balanceakt m


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There is a double tightrope act that occurs toward the end of Act One of "Kooza," the new Cirque du Soleil show that open at the Santa Monica Pier on Thursday.
In the end, Hynde does a great tightrope act of being profound and playfully profane that very few rockers can do without falling on their face, or in this case, falling from grace.
Kent kept talking up the new guys' potential, then talking down their present, and it was quite a tightrope act.
 
 
 
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