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daredevil

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daredevil

A pilot who takes great or unnecessary risks, as in stunt flying.
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The following year, partnered by the 18-year-old wunderkind Ivan Vasiliev, she again set the stage ablaze with her daredeviltry, pyrotechnics, and flamboyance.
Despite the apparent lack of structure, TheaterSports acthletes have over the years systemized their various forms of improvisational daredeviltry, complete with the genre's own jargon - "Emotional Symphony" (acthletes must produce assigned emotional states when pointed to by a conductor); "First Line, Last Line" (the audience supplies the first and last lines of a scene, and actors supply a scene that justifies the two lines); "A Day in the Life" (an audience member is interviewed about his day, then watches it in instant replay, with embellishment by actors).
Back then, my ideas of daredeviltry did not conjure up the taking of my black body into a roadside luncheonette for a forbidden cup of coffee.
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