plange
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- In circus: Acts of skill
…a maneuver called the “plange” (a stunt that led to her tragic death at the peak of her career in 1931, when her apparatus broke); the Australian-born Con Colleano, the “Toreador of the Tight Wire,” whose dance on the wire to a Spanish cadence thrilled American audiences from 1925…
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