The phrase
"high wire" refers to a thin, elevated rope or cable that people walk on in circus performances or dangerous situations. It can also be used metaphorically to describe a risky or challenging situation that requires careful balance and skill to navigate.
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He was obsessed
with high wire walking and was always looking for the next place to hang his wires.
It's difficult, however, to walk this
precarious high wire of responsibility knowing that we need to expose students to current events and yet still nurture them developmentally.
Most animals are healed and released as quickly as possible, and many die due to extensive injuries (usually mauled by dogs or electrocuted
on high wires.)
Falling off
high wires without nets and trying to look cool doing it — it ain't smooth, man, it's arrogance and it's misplaced.
Dean Norris, Larry Pine, Shea Whigham and Mark Pellegrino have been added to the cast
of High Wire Act, the Tony Gilroy - scripted political action thriller starring Jon Hamm and Rosamund Pike.
This time, a dozen masked men overpowered two guards at the Üplingen Plant Science Garden, hopped a waist -
high wire fence and trashed a plot of genetically modified potatoes, along with part of a nearby stand of transgenic wheat.
Wearing: F21 black thigh high boots, F21 Draped coat, Forever 21 mesh bodycon dress, Retro City high wire sunglasses
He's currently finishing up work on comedy Keeping Up With The Joneses and is attached to a couple of other films
including High Wire Act and Marjorie Prime.
And good luck not flinching when Philippe drops his balancing pole while practicing on the
circus high wire.
On August 6th, 1974, Philippe Petit, a
French high wire artist, hung a wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Center and walked it not once, not twice, but three - and - a-half times.
Telling the true story of Phillipe Petit, a French
high wire artist, who walked between the towers of the World Trade Centre in 1974, the film is narrated by Petit — played by Joseph Gordon - Levitt — as he strolls around the top of the Statue of Liberty, the famous towers in the background.
Pike was Oscar nominated for Gone Girl and most recently completed the Scott Cooper - directed Hostiles opposite Christian Bale and Ben Foster, the Jose Padilha - directed Entebbe opposite Daniel Bruhl and the Brad Anderson -
directed High Wire Act opposite Jon Hamm.
Rosamund Pike has spent a busy year shuttling between her home in London and Africa, where she filmed political
thriller High Wire Act in Morocco — the latest go - to location for filmmakers (Tangier stands in for Beirut)-- and A United Kingdom in Botswana.
Fly off of massive jumps, crash through bowling pins, spin
around high wires, or assemble a poker hand in the craziest races ever.
The film tells the story of
high wire walker Philippe Petit, the subject of the 2008 documentary Man on Wire.
According to the party's Publicity Secretary, the image of the outgoing governor which Soyinka was trying to launder had been damaged by himself due to excessive greed, uncontrolled wickedness to workers and
high wire corruption that has been exposed to the people of the state.
She now leads two weekly classes there, another at Tradesman Brewing, also in Charleston, and a monthly class at
nearby High Wire Distilling Co., where yoga is followed by a cocktail.
Kishi Bashi welcomes you to the wild and wonderful world of looping; a treacherous,
high wire musical act that's an absolute wonder to behold in our latest session.
Pike is also attached to the Tony Gilroy -
scripted High Wire Act opposite Jon Hamm, about a former U.S. diplomat who returns to service in order to save a former colleague in Beirut as well as Marc Webb's The Only Living Boy In New York opposite Miles Teller and Jeff Bridges.
The Robert Zemeckis - directed
high wire tale «The Walk,» starring Joseph Gordon - Levitt, opens a giant - screen run Wednesday, followed by the Jack Black comedy «Goosebumps» on Oct. 16 and the 24th Bond film, «Spectre,» on Nov. 6.
Tevis put a lot of himself into Fast Eddie: «(Tevis) was a
really high wire person,» his daughter recalls.
A three -
foot high wire mesh fence, extended six inches beneath the ground's surface, will keep skunks out of the fenced area.
The Big Swing: Experience the adrenaline of a 68 metre freefall in less than 3 seconds on one of the world's highest cable gorge swings or fly across the gorge on a 131
m high wire «foefie slide», 80 m above ground zero and witness the breathtaking Graskop falls as never seen before.
Catherine
Yass High Wire, published by Artangel and Glasgow international Festival of Contemporary Visual Art 2008, writings by Francis McKee and Steven Connor
Lighthouse is Yass's first major film
since High Wire (2008) and joins the ranks of her other critically - acclaimed films, Lock (2006) and Descent (2002).
In addition to Yass's recent retrospective at De La Warr, other major solo exhibitions include The China Series at the Stedelijk - Hertogenbosch Museum, The Netherlands in 2009; Descent at the Saint Louis Art Museum in 2009; and
High Wire commissioned by Artangel and Glasgow International Festival and exhibited widely internationally in 2008.
There are a number of activities that you could try which
include High Wires, skiing and snowboarding to name just three but how does a trip in a Gondola sound.
Nowhere is The Walk more deliciously cruel to the phobic than in an overhead shot of his protagonist, Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) laying down on the
circus high wire he has suspended between the two towers.
Bleecker Street has acquired U.S. distribution rights to director Brad Anderson's political
thriller High Wire Act.
But I do recall one time sitting slack jawed watching acrobats, trapeze, and
high wire acts at Cirque du Soleil.
The only people who never tumble are those who never mount
the high wire.
Being a Reformational Catholic Christian is a circus ride,
a high wire act with no net but the loving arms of our faithful Father.
The Braves» outfield is bordered by a six - foot -
high wire - mesh fence that runs around the perimeter of the grass.
When you start living on
the high wires, you can't ever come down.»
With more than 100 significant amateur championships to their credit, five generations of the Fords of Charleston have been to Carolina Lowcountry golf what the Wallendas have been to the high wire
Adjacent to these and protected by
a high wire fence is a blue - and - white trailer, the property of the Kentucky State Racing Commission, in which postrace tests are conducted to determine whether illegal drugs are present in the saliva or urine of winners and other selected horses that have raced each day.
Though raising a child always has been a pursuit akin to walking
a high wire stretched across the Grand Canyon in a deep fog while balancing two bags of groceries, women through much of this century have been blessed with scores of publications dispensing advice and wisdom and theory on raising children.
However, Jon Cruddas, MP for Dagenham said: «It's
a high wire act.
One way to picture this is to imagine a tightrope walker on
a high wire.
You don't want to be tiptoeing across
a high wire when you first decide to challenge your equilibrium.
The only people who never tumble are those who never mount
the high wire.
I haven't done a giveaway in a while so I've teamed up with Retro City Sunglasses to give away a pair of
these high wire sunglasses that are pretty much everything.
For people who can't stand the thought of ever being single, online dating is like a great big safety net as they walk
the high wire act of dating and relationships.
And the sound design is equally immersive; scenes of Philippe practicing under Papa Rudy's circus tent combine the rattle of
the high wire rigging and the billowing big top to evoke a sailing ship.
Joseph Gordon - Levitt, lounging on
the high wire, recreating the 1974 performance of Philippe Petit in «The Walk.»