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They tiptoe the tightrope of campy nostalgia but never quite slip into travesty.
From the kentucky.com
From a squad leader's perspective, it will be a very delicate tightrope to walk.
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His pieces always seem to walk the tightrope between perfection and total chaos.
From the guardian.co.uk
The film is an adventure too, a tightrope dance between sociology and sentiment.
From the time.com
Hundreds of people in their muddy shoes tightrope across those boards every day.
From the world.time.com
The tightrope walker balancing between life and death is the novel's leitmotif.
From the guardian.co.uk
Kentucky writers have always walked a tightrope between Kentucky and the Outside.
From the kentucky.com
Social commentary in dance, and especially ballet, is a tricky tightrope to walk.
From the post-gazette.com
One depicts flights of birds, the other a tightrope walker moving over a chasm.
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- Tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground
- Tightrope walking (or funambulism) is the art of walking along a thin wire or rope, usually at a great height. One or more artists performs in front of an audience (a common act in circuses) or as a publicity stunt (often attempting to set location-specific distance or height records). ...
- Tight Rope is the sixth studio album by country duo Brooks & Dunn, released in 1999 on Arista Nashville. ...
- "Tightrope" is the title of the opening track to A New World Record by Electric Light Orchestra.
- Tightrope (1984) is a suspense thriller starring Clint Eastwood as Wes Block, a detective investigating a string of sexually-related murders in New Orleans. ...
- Tightrope was an event played during the initial UK series of Gladiators. In this event, contender and Gladiator have to pull themselves along a rope to a half way platform and then zip line back down it to the finish post.
- Tightrope is a children's novel by Gillian Cross, published in 1999. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
- The song, "Tightrope", was recorded by the Chicago pop-punk band Screeching Weasel during the sessions for their tenth studio album, Emo. The song was, however, left off the album when released "simply because Ben Weasel didn't feel it [fitted] in thematically". ...
- Tightrope is the debut album from Australian pop singer Stephanie McIntosh, which was released on September 9, 2006, and re-released on March 19, 2007. ...
