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tightrope-walking

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  • Watching them bumble their way through a plot to wreck havoc in London is ballsy, tightrope-walking entertainment that always keeps them believably, hilariously human.

    Michael Giltz: DVDs: Zombies Attack in The Walking Dead Michael Giltz 2011

  • Watching them bumble their way through a plot to wreck havoc in London is ballsy, tightrope-walking entertainment that always keeps them believably, hilariously human.

    Michael Giltz: DVDs: Zombies Attack in The Walking Dead Michael Giltz 2011

  • It is one of those disciplines, like tightrope-walking, where what appears effortless to the expert reveals its true perils only in the work of the less proficient.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Tim Stretton 2009

  • It is one of those disciplines, like tightrope-walking, where what appears effortless to the expert reveals its true perils only in the work of the less proficient.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2009

  • There's no risk in being a Yankees fan, no emotional tightrope-walking, while being a Cubs fan is like dating someone with Multiple Personality Disorder: today they're flirtatious and dependable, tomorrow mumbling to themselves and refusing to shower, the next day clinching their division, and shortly afterward being swept by the Dodgers.

    Ted Goeglein: Prisoner of Cubs 2009

  • He penned an episode for the short-lived Bronson Pinchot vehicle The Trouble With Larry , in which the title character mistakes his archaeologist-roommate's rare child-king mummy for a piñata, and then has to replace it with an injured tightrope-walking monkey in a full-body cast.

    Charlie Kaufman: Hollywood's Brainiest Screenwriter Pleases Crowds by Refusing to Please 2008

  • It's the story of a narcissistic egomaniac who enlisted his friends and girlfriend to--for years--help him live out his dreams of tightrope-walking above places like Notre Dame and the World Trade Center.

    THREE FILMS AND A VIDEO CLIP N A 2008

  • It's the story of a narcissistic egomaniac who enlisted his friends and girlfriend to--for years--help him live out his dreams of tightrope-walking above places like Notre Dame and the World Trade Center.

    Archive 2008-12-01 N A 2008

  • He penned an episode for the short-lived Bronson Pinchot vehicle The Trouble With Larry , in which the title character mistakes his archaeologist-roommate's rare child-king mummy for a piñata, and then has to replace it with an injured tightrope-walking monkey in a full-body cast.

    Charlie Kaufman: Hollywood's Brainiest Screenwriter Pleases Crowds by Refusing to Please Jason Tanz 2008

  • You're constantly leaping over gaps 40 stories in the air, tightrope-walking along suspended pipes and vaulting up walls like a ninja.

    Victory in Vomit: The Sickening Secret of Mirror's Edge 2008

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