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The Verified Answer for Performance for which one might grab a chair is:
- LIONTAMING
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Hint 1: Clue Explanation
▼The “performance for which one might grab a chair” is a circus, and whomever is doing the LION TAMING isn’t exactly sitting down; big cat trainers famously wave a chair about when they’re tempting fate. At first I thought that this answer, another puzzle debut, was a bit anachronistic, or soon to be. The old-fashioned circus is going the way of sideshows, right? Little did I know the history of Clyde Beatty, lion tamer, whose introduction of the use of a chair as a distraction device has inspired 21st-century motivators who hope to improve our focus. Apparently, when a lion sees the four legs of a chair, he (or she, although the boys are usually the ones in these shows, I think) sees four separate pieces of prey, one for each leg, and pauses in a befuddled state. Don’t be a lion! Break it down; savage one leg at a time.