Sentences with phrase «illegal tightrope walk»

That film would be «Man On Wire,» James Marsh's crisp, witty and ultimately very moving documentary about Philippe Petit, the charismatic French performance artist who in 1974 committed the so - called «artistic crime of the century» — an illegal tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the New York's World Trade Center.

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Familiarity with the subject — Philippe Petit's daring and illegal 1974 tightrope walk between the tops of the Twin Towers — might seem an obstacle to Zemeckis» often visceral and exciting brand of filmmaking.
If they go too much above that cost for too long then they'll have to compete with it so they walk a tightrope of price manipulation, through blatant illegal collusion i.e. price fixing, to make sure that there's not sufficient price motivation for anyone to invest the startup capital for large scale coal liquifaction.
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