A
tightrope is a very thin and stretched rope or wire that acrobats or
tightrope walkers use to perform balancing acts high off the ground.
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Now, why is it that young folks that have very little knowledge or skill in
walking tightropes want to try to do it... when there is a walking bridge about 50» feet away that has $ 500 on the other side everyday?
There was a round table on the protection of personal data — a tricky
tightrope between rights of individuals and public rights.
Mario Kart walks the great
tightrope of between casual and hardcore.
Mentored by Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), the multilingual patriarch of a family of
tightrope walkers, Philippe finds further accomplices in a photographer (Clément Sibony), an electronics store owner (James Badge Dale, resuming the scene - stealer duties he briefly held in Zemeckis» Flight), a life insurance salesman who works high in one of the towers (Steve Valentine), and a couple of iffy allies («Parks & Rec»'s Ben Schwartz and, comic relief, Benedict Samuel).
The chef is a genius, balancing flavours the way acrobats balance
on tightropes, and your taste buds will be singing.
For a 2009 prank / performance for NO ZONING, an exhibition also co-curated by Kamps about Houston - based artist projects and interventions, the Art Guys, both married to women, walked the political
tightrope in a staged performance The Art Guys Marry a Plant in the sculpture garden at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
The political
tightrope act for ministers is to push more cash to the less well - funded areas without damaging those schools performing well in better - funded places.
But in McDonagh's careful hands, it's a Cirque du Soleil -
like tightrope walk, gracefully balancing the harrowing with the humorous.
In films as varied
as Tightrope, Bird and Unforgiven he simultaneously explores the unholy lure of violence while exposing its nauseating underbelly.
Chicken number one climbs up the ladder onto a one - foot - wide platform, makes a 180 - degree turn and
tightropes across a narrow bridge to a second platform, where it pecks a tethered ping - pong ball, sending the ball in an arc around Read More
«By choosing very few large scale issues that benefit real estate, REBNY walks the political
tightrope without falling.»
«Once there were two towers side by side,» Gyllenhaal begins as the colored line drawings come to life and we're introduced to Petit, who had previously astonished Paris
by tightrope walking between the steeples of Notre Dame.
The coalition's deputy prime minister will be walking a
tricky tightrope at Leveson.
You may even start to take a few liberties with the throttle (having switched the stability control off), which is massively intimidating at first, but which if you persevere with you'll discover that the RS has a broad range of adjustability aided by millimetre perfect throttle calibration, albeit with the sensation of walking a pretty high
tightrope at all times and without the comfort of a safety line.
Secretaries of state have to walk
tightropes when their highly distinguished senior advisers have spoken out of turn.
The final boss in Dragon Age: Inquisition was, for me, one of these, finishing a game about nuanced approaches to issues and
political tightrope walking with a JRPG - style boss with a billion hit points and irritating area of effect attacks.
teachers have to walk a very
thin tightrope of classroom management because if one kid even hints at a teacher molesting, improper touching, saying or doing something wrong towards that child, the teacher is automatically put on suspension and kids know this and use this to their advantage.
It's fascinating, and we loved the trippy video where divers act like
tightrope artists «walking» along their guide wires underwater.
Now, it looks as if JGL has indeed committed to playing the role of
French tightrope walker and...
Bong does manage to traverse this
tonal tightrope between the serious and the absurd, and the climax of the film crackles with energy during the final confrontation between man and monster.
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It addresses like few American films do the difficulty of making and maintaining a living in a swiftly - tilting economy, the shrinking corporate universe that's resulted in monopolies in fact if not in name, and the
financial tightrope of second mortgages and a credit card dependency.
With exams, a thesis, and job interviews to think about, Katie is already walking an
emotional tightrope when Wade Handler (Benjamin Bratt), a police detective, enters the picture.
As the first major awards show to hit the airwaves after Hollywood's Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal swept our entire nation, Sunday's 75th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony was in a real
tightrope situation.
You miss - stepped on the
fine tightrope between confident and over-confident, between perfect for the job and full - of - yourself.
The series
called Tightrope included artwork made from the «discarded innards of computers and machines,» that Elias gathers from «Merkato's Menalesh Tera section in his hometown of Addis Ababa.»
Healing Hands provides a full range of Orthopedic procedures, including TPLO,
tightrope CCL repair, patellar luxation, and fracture repair.
If, and it is still an if, Len does get pushed out (or jumps before he is) then that
tightrope doesn't have a safety net beneath it anymore.
As Newtown, Conn., administrators are learning, school leaders walk a
delicate tightrope in helping their schools find «a new normal» in the wake of a tragedy.
Also, using the Wiimote to walk
along tightropes and balance, just feels totally tacked on.
Installation photograph
showing Tightrope (1936), Big Bird (1937), and White Panel (1936), Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1937
In a continuing effort to improve it, Seretse Khama walks a
diplomatic tightrope between white South Africa to the south, Rhodesia to the east and black Africa to the north.
It seems he is walking a political
tightrope so as to retain his IPCC position.
McDonagh loves Rockwell; this is evident enough in returning the actor from his previous film «Seven Psychopaths,» crystal clear in the
thematic tightrope walk he gives him.
One minute a fiercely honest character study about a man coping with bipolar disorder, and the next minute a charming rom - com revolving around an amateur dancing competition, the film performs such an
amazing tightrope act that it's really to Russell's credit that it doesn't come crashing down like a house of cards.
ACL repair 48 pd mixed breed good health, 5 years spayed, poss
tightrope surgery, not overweight.
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Tightrope Routines still from performance video documentation (image courtesy of Angela Washko)-RSB-
Her highly acclaimed video
work Tightrope is currently part of Christine Macel's International Art Exhibition, «Viva Arte Viva «at the Venice Biennale, along with Baida, an invisible performance (scripted by Tim Etchells).
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SIME Tightrope: Symbolism and Confusion 2017 Reclaimed electronic components on panel 63 3/8 x 157 3/8 in.
I would like to think that when I am done after working on it for weeks and sometimes months, there is an interesting and intentionally confusing juxtaposition between pure abstraction and linear form — that they each balance one another and create their
own tightrope act.»
With the
new Tightrope technique, many dogs walk out of the clinic the day after surgery with less pain than they walked in.
Joseph Gordon - Levitt puts on his best Franglais accent and
goes tightrope walking as legendary high - wire madman Philippe Petit