tightwire

One foot moved forward, as if balancing on a tightwire.

"Tightwire" has a strange purifying effect - its very subject seems to be group therapy.

And as it strings the tightwire, it provides few nets.

It's a close call, economists are calling it both ways, and a cautious Federal Reserve is on a tightwire without a net.

This is perhaps too schematic an outline of "Tightwire," but certainly the way people change - or are changed - is a concern here.

Therefore, a tightwire walker's sway is side to side, their lateral support having been drastically reduced.

Yet some of his followers may finally begin to wonder what he does when he cannot brazenly walk a tightwire of attack.

In return for collecting coins during outdoor performances, the magician teaches Mondo how to walk a tightwire.

"Your whole life becomes this kind of tightwire balancing act between 'How many painkillers did I take today?'

El cielo sabrá (Tightwire)

Roark's words were like the steps of a man walking a tightwire, slow, strained, groping for the only right spot, quivering over an abyss, but precise.

Running On The Edge (Tightwire)

The waiter, wary of spillage, transported the martini toward me, slowly, deliberately, one foot directly in front of the other as if he were on a tightwire.

The remainder of the program includes a premiere, "Tightwire," as well as "The Envelope" and "The Uninvited."

But Representative Charles E. Schumer, a Brooklyn Democrat, said in an interview that such a tightwire approach could prove risky.

To choose and manage a vision required you to balance on a single, thin thread - playing God on a high tightwire with cosmic solitude on both sides.

But "Tightwire" (danced in silence in Judy Wirkula's tights with leaflike markings) manages to stay on the right side of this threshold.

Soon after the hotel opened a tightwire, or tightrope walker crossed Peoples Street six floors up from the City National Bank to the Nueces.

"The market had been walking a tightwire throughout the day with Texaco on one side and I.B.M. on the other," Mr. Peroni said.

The show's most courageous section is Mr. Kelly's re-creation of Barbette's aerial act, in which he walks a tightwire and executes trapeze stunts of medium difficulty.

Just over to his right, they'd set up the poles for the tightwire, and Burning Tower had climbed up there to dance in a revealing green-and-orange costume made mostly of feathers.

It is common for tightwire artists to include a variety of props in their acts, such as clubs or rings, hats or canes in order to help them maintain their balance.

On each listening, I experience a certain anxiety at this indecision, and then finally surprise and relief when I have metaphorically crossed the tightwire and am once more back to the platform."

The sensors in the jaws brought back to Timmins' fingertips a twang like that of a tightwire being walked on, a tightwire wrapped in a hundred layers of silk.

He played the lead role in Skipping on Stars based on the life of indigenous tightwire walker Con Colleano, performed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus.