A tightrope walker.

I don't like tightrope walkers.

Rex, the tightrope walker, hasn't shown up.

A New Added Attraction, Rex, a tightrope walker.

He's a tightrope walker. I've just met him.

So I just created the widest tightrope in the world.

And a few days later, I was practicing on a single tightrope.

Losing his balance from a sudden gust of wind, the tightrope walker fell to his death.

We should have gone to the fair to see the tightrope walkers I don't like these fiendish nuns

Even a death defying magician has to start somewhere. High wire artist Philippe Petit takes you on an intimate journey from his first card trick at age 6 to his tightrope walk between the Twin Towers.

We were freaks lobster claw boys and bearded ladies, oddities juggling depression and loneliness, playing solitaire, spin the bottle, trying to kiss the wounded parts of ourselves and heal, but at night, while the others slept, we kept walking the tightrope.

Having served as the IMF s chief economist from 2001 to 2003, I am familiar with the Fund s need to walk a tightrope between building investor confidence and shaking up complacent policymakers. But it is one thing to be circumspect in the midst of a crisis it is quite another to spew nonsense.

India should seek to play the role of honest broker to defuse the threat of military hostilities, which would most likely shut down the world s most important oil export route, the Strait of Hormuz (a danger that Iran has said is also implicit in an oil export embargo against it). But, far from being able to play the role of bridge builder between the US and Iran, India is being forced to walk a policy tightrope, and its desire to chart a neutral course has annoyed both sides.