Sentences with phrase «tightrope walker»

With such high stakes, educators today are like tightrope walkers without a safety net, responsible for meeting the needs of every student, with little room for error.
It tells the story of famed French tightrope walker Philippe Petit, who, in August 1974, hung — somehow — a solid wire between the (at that time) almost - completed World Trade Center towers in lower Manhattan and then, for almost 45 minutes, performed the impossibly dangerous feat of walking back and forth along its length.
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).
We have so many fantastic memories — the panoramic views at Glacier Point, getting up close to waterfalls on the Mist Trail, watching crazy tightrope walkers at Taft Point, having high altitude Gaylor Lakes to ourselves, and stunning views around every corner.
Bridge construction firm Harrison & Burrowes, which worked on the Walkway over the Hudson and is based in Glenmont, also is a partner, as is O'Connell Electric, an upstate New York company that installs cable, including pulling one for tightrope walker Nik Wallenda across Niagara Falls, Madison said.
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high - wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, «the artistic crime of the century.»
The film chronicled the story of Philippe Petit, a French tightrope walker who in 1974 walked between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
Last week thrill - seeking tightrope walker, Nik Wallenda successfully traversed a tightrope hundreds of feet above the Chicago River, strung between two skyscrapers while blindfolded without a safety net or safety harness.
In his view the older model is far better, offering us the saint as spiritual tightrope walker, ascetic star, eccentric.
Like tiny tightrope walkers, the high - energy electrons follow the magnetic field lines.
Hank connects with Leila (Nastassja Kinski), an exotic circus tightrope walker.
It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground.
The result was a coaster that achieved a perfect 10 on the Nausea scale and left only two of its riders in their seats, their inner ears wobbling for balance like a vaudevillian tightrope walker.
In this absurd, nerve - racking film, a famous tightrope walker moves expensive - looking paintings across a mountain crevasse.
Now, it looks as if JGL has indeed committed to playing the role of French tightrope walker and...
The bateleur, which gets its name from the French word for tightrope walker, is found most often in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe — but don't count on seeing one: Population estimates for these endangered birds place the current number at 75 percent fewer than in the early 1900s, and 50 percent less in the last 30 years.
It's fun to think of these two young men using digital technology to do every crazy little thing they ever dreamed of: Steve sends potato chips arcing in a continuous stream from the bag into his mouth; Andrew becomes a champion juggler and tightrope walker at a school talent show.
Here in the in - between are the tightrope walkers.
If, in heaven, I decided I want to learn to become a tightrope walker, and I become so good I decide to tightrope across the heavenly version of Niagara Falls, what happens if I make a mistake and I fall?
All I know is that is was before she met my uncle, and she was NOT a tightrope walker.
The only thing that's consistently unbalanced about Alfredsson, though, is her follow - through, which even on her best shots often leaves her lurching like a tightrope walker.
Goaded by this unnerving intelligence — and spurred along by loneliness that befalls him as a 49 - year - old bachelor hopelessly embroiled in his job — Allen is a tireless worker, driving himself to accept as many obligations, commitments and duties as daylight and dark will allow and, like a tightrope walker, resisting the impulse to look beneath him.
«Funambol,» — tightrope walker — «is the balance between open source and business, between a community effort and the need to pay salaries at the end of the month.»
After completing his Ph.D., Capobianco fully left academia for business and now, 10 years later, he is the chief executive officer of his third Internet company — this one called Funambol, or «tightrope walker» in Italian — which he runs from Silicon Valley in the United States.
One way to picture this is to imagine a tightrope walker on a high wire.
To the tightrope walker the wire is essentially one - dimensional, a line pointing in one direction.
String theorists would say we're like the tightrope walker, except that our «rope» is an 11 - dimensional space, of which we are able to perceive only four dimensions.
But an ant crawling on the wire would see it as a three - dimensional object; the ant could crawl completely around the wire, experiencing a dimension that is inaccessible to the tightrope walker.
Every time you use your arms to balance by holding them out to the sides like a tightrope walker, you're intuitively taking advantage of the fact that as weight moves away from your center of gravity, it has a greater effect on your equilibrium.
With a roller coaster zipping around in my stomach and the tightrope walker taking that brave step, I could instantly remember taking that first quivering breath each night and walking out onto that stage, shedding my skin and years of fear and insecurity.
Instead, say something like, «I've enjoyed these last few years as an accountant, but I think it's time for me to do something different, so I'm thinking about retraining as a tightrope walker
Let»em be test pilots, tightrope walkers, human cannonballs and such - any career safer than the business of tutus and tiaras.
Petit begins by explaining his antecedents as a little French boy who sneaked into a provincial circus and was awed by the tightrope walker, as a some - time student of a high - wire master known as Papa Rudy and as a street performer in Paris in the 1970s.
The documentary footage of the tightrope walker and the parachutist...
Joseph Gordon - Levitt stars as the tightrope walker as he prepares for his grandest statement, a high - wire walk between New York's Twin Towers.
Get ready for your heart to skip a few beats if you plan to see the current film «Mountain,» featuring goosebumps - inducing footage of wingsuiters, tightrope walkers, BASE jumpers, skiers, mountain bikers and rock climbers pursuing passions that take them to the world's highest peaks, from Alaska to Tibet.
Now, it looks as if JGL has indeed committed to playing the role of French tightrope walker and high - wire artist, Philippe Petit.
Perhaps it's the embers flying about for no apparent reason, the sinister Single White Female vibe given off by the elephant in the background, the tightrope walker up above appearing out of thin air or the humourous direction of Robert Pattinson's eyesight.
Those who watch the tightrope walker feel great tension.
French tightrope walker Petit's daredevil traverse of the twin towers — carried out without permission — was brought to the attention of filmgoers in James Marsh's award - winning 2008 documentary Man on Wire.
The film is opening in more theaters worldwide in the weeks to come — and the fact that Joseph Gordon - Levitt's main character is a French tightrope walker could help in the international market — but so far, the film is coming in under expectations.
«The Walk» (October 9): Director Robert Zemeckis applies his eye for the spectacular to the life of Philippe Petit, the tightrope walker previously celebrated in James Marsh's Oscar - winning documentary «Man on Wire.»
The Tightrope Walkers was published in the UK as an adult book, and it could very well fit under a new adult designation.
The Tightrope Walkers is no different, in that all these notes are hit upon.
In Tsovkra - 1 everybody is a tightrope walker.
According to a website dedicated to tightrope walker Jean François Gravelet, the Greeks were so enamored of tightrope walking that they created a special prize, «The Thaumatron,» which could be won by tightrope walkers and «anyone who shows people something amazing, out of the ordinary.»
Over the centuries, funambulists — or tightrope walkers, ropewalkers, or equilibrists — have performed some of the most amazing feats of daring; such as taking the audience's breath away numerous times by walking across Niagara Falls.
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