highwire

Installed as chief executive of the British Paralympic Association BPA last month, he is charged with delivering a highwire act with a year remaining until the Games.

Paralympics 2012: Tim Hollingsworth, the man in charge of the Games 2011

Sometimes I feel like I am walking on a highwire, and sometimes I drive to California in a silver Dodge sedan, only to discover that I have not left the couch, but am lost in a cloud of smoke, a bowl of opium at my side.

What Matters Is Round John Olson 2011

For lovers of the written word, it's a chance to get close to authors and their derring-do; for authors, it's a chance to feel the exhilaration of walking out on the highwire, a chance to show the audience they can bring the goods.

Jane Ganahl: Reading as a Spectator Sport 2010

For lovers of the written word, it's a chance to get close to authors and their derring-do; for authors, it's a chance to feel the exhilaration of walking out on the highwire, a chance to show the audience they can bring the goods.

Jane Ganahl: Reading as a Spectator Sport 2010

For lovers of the written word, it's a chance to get close to authors and their derring-do; for authors, it's a chance to feel the exhilaration of walking out on the highwire, a chance to show the audience they can bring the goods.

Jane Ganahl: Reading as a Spectator Sport 2010

He had asked a fellow Forum participator, Philippe Petit, the French highwire artist, to teach him how to walk the tightrope.

Sir Richard Branson's Lessons From a Boy 2010

For lovers of the written word, it's a chance to get close to authors and their derring-do; for authors, it's a chance to feel the exhilaration of walking out on the highwire, a chance to show the audience they can bring the goods.

Jane Ganahl: Reading as a Spectator Sport 2010

Framed around Philippe Petit's famed highwire walk between the towers of the World Trade Center.

Kevin Smokler: The Shelf Talker: Ramen Noodles, Harold Bloom, and Poisonous Plants. 2009

Relevant to exactly nothing, said highwire walk happened on TST's first birthday.

Kevin Smokler: The Shelf Talker: Ramen Noodles, Harold Bloom, and Poisonous Plants. 2009

He is a master at rigging, impressing even those construction workers ordered to take down the apparatus after the event, but his talent at walking the highwire becomes a pinnacle of his success, his euphoric triumph to the years of planning and dreaming as he lets out a broad smile during his 45-minute “dance” at the top of the world.

2009 March 29 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009