These films in particular, as well as others including Play Misty for Me ( 1971 ), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot ( 1974 ), The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ), Escape from Alcatraz ( 1979 ), Tightrope ( 1984 ), Pale Rider ( 1985 ), Heartbreak Ridge ( 1986 ), In the Line of Fire ( 1993 ), The Bridges of Madison County ( 1995 ), and Gran Torino ( 2008 ), have all received commercial success and critical acclaim.

* Tightrope ( 1984 ), directed by Richard Tuggle and starring Clint Eastwood and Geneviève Bujold

The police procedural film, often with a surprise twist ending, has also remained a vital format with Cruising ( 1980 ), Gorky Park ( 1983 ), Tightrope ( 1984 ), The Dead Pool ( 1988 ), Mortal Thoughts ( 1991 ), Rising Sun ( 1993 ), Striking Distance ( 1993 ), The Usual Suspects ( 1995 ), Lone Star ( 1996 ), Under Suspicion ( 2000 ), Blood Work ( 2002 ), Mindhunters ( 2004 ), and Righteous Kill ( 2008 ).

* Tightrope ( 1984 )

Very early on, Ruth Boswell was brought in as associate producer and script editor as she had experience of children's fantasy drama ( Timeslip and Tightrope ) while TV dramatist Brian Finch was hired to co-write the scripts in view of the fact that Price had little experience of writing drama.

Before that, he had played a crime-fighting investigator, wielding a. 38 handgun hidden in his back, in another CBS series, Tightrope.

Tightrope Pictures is a British television production company, founded in late 2003 by writer Paul Abbott and producer Hilary Bevan-Jones, who had worked together that year on the successful BBC drama serial State of Play.

Eastwood has appeared in over 50 films and has starred in 42 films, including Hang ' Em High, Play Misty for Me, Dirty Harry, Escape from Alcatraz, Tightrope, The Bridges of Madison County, and Gran Torino.

His early television career featured many guest starring roles in such series as Wagon Train, Black Saddle, Have Gun-Will Travel, The Fugitive, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Gunsmoke, Harbor Command, Tombstone Territory, Tightrope, The Blue Angels ( as arrogant flight instructor Lieutenant Dayl Martin ), Laramie, COronado 9, The Eleventh Hour, Bonanza, Thriller ( US TV series ), and Channing, an ABC drama about college life.

Connors later took the starring roles in Tightrope ( 1959 – 1960 ), Mannix ( 1967 – 1975 ) and Today's F. B. I.

Desmond Bagley's 1973 thriller The Tightrope Men features a percussion-fired punt gun.

Tightrope crossings of the falls ended — by law — in 1896, when James Hardy crossed.

This philosophical slant rubbed off onto some of his new musical poems of the time: A Singer at the Microphone, The Tightrope Walker, and The Misery ( a sad folky tale of a girl who became victim of circumstance, later recorded by Marina and covered by countless female performers ) and others.

Walk the Tightrope is the fourth album by Australian boy band and pop vocal group Human Nature released on 26 April 2004.

A digital-only EP, Psychic Life, fronted by the song " Tightrope ", was released in October 2011.

Tightrope Pictures have produced several high-profile dramas for the BBC, including Richard Curtis's The Girl in the Café ( also directed by David Yates for BBC One, 2005 ) and an adaptation of William Golding's novel To the Ends of the Earth ( BBC Two, 2005 ).

* Sur le Fil, ( On The Tightrope )-by Fernando Arrabal, directed by Pierre Constant.

The film is produced by the independent production company Tightrope Pictures and was originally screened on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 25 June 2005.

Pop / soul singer Janelle Monáe features a Baron Samedi-like figure in his typical top-hat and suit in the video for her song Tightrope.

* The Tightrope Dancer.

* Humanity on a Tightrope: Thoughts on Empathy, Family, and Big Changes for a Viable Future ( 2010, co-authored with Robert E. Ornstein ) ISBN 978-1-4422-0648-9

She is known for her role as Sky Mangel in the Australian soap opera Neighbours and her music career, which began with the release of her debut album Tightrope in September 2006.

The show debuted on Network Ten on 28 July 2006, the day before the release of her debut single, " Mistake ", and finished on 15 September 2006, the date the music video for her second single Tightrope was released.

" Tightrope ", the second single to be lifted off the album, made the Australian top 20.

A special repackaged edition of the album Tightrope was released on 19 March 2007.

" Although he stated that " " Wall of Denial " and " Tightrope " fall into ex-addict jargon like it was natural speech " and that " if the music was preachy or wimpy this would be a disaster ," he concluded that " " House Is Rockin ' " keeps on boogieing on – and that on the mood-jazz closer he escapes the blues undamaged for the first time in his career.

" Although he stated that " tunes like the terse " Tightrope " and the dense " Wall of Denial " feel so intensely personal, it's hard to believe that they weren't the product of just one man ", he also stated that " the lighter numbers [...] are just as effective as songs.

Tightrope walking ( or funambulism ) is the art of walking along a thin wire or rope, usually at a great height.

There are two principal theaters: the Théâtre des Funambules (" Theater of Tightrope Walkers ") specializes in pantomime, since the authorities do not allow it to use spoken dialogue, which is reserved for the " official " venue, the Grand Theater.

In late 2003, Abbott and Bevan-Jones founded their own independent production company, Tightrope Pictures, based in Soho, London.

* " Tightrope " ( June 27, 2001 ) No. 60

On May 21, 1984, during a press conference at which the Atari 7800 was introduced, company executives revealed that the 5200 had been discontinued after just two years on the market.

The 7800 had originally been designed to replace Atari Inc .' s Atari 5200 in 1984, but was temporarily shelved due to the sale of the company after the video game crash.

The system had been designed in 1983 through 1984 with an intended mass market rollout in June 1984, but was canceled shortly thereafter due to the sale of the company to Tramiel Technology Ltd on July 2, 1984.

Atari's launch of the 7800 under Tramiel was far more subdued than Warner had planned for the system in 1984 with a marketing budget of just $ 300, 000.

At one point in 1984 Winston Smith, the protagonist of Orwell's novel, tries " to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.

His exploits had been gradually pushed backwards in time until already they extended into the fabulous world of the forties and the thirties, when the capitalists in their strange cylindrical hats still rode through the streets of London ..." In the year 1984 Big Brother appears on posters and the telescreen as a man of about 45.

* In 2002, Edwina Currie revealed that she had had an affair, beginning in 1984, with John Major before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Beginning in 1984, women biathletes had their own World Championships, and finally, from 1989, both genders have been participating in joint BWCHs.

In 1984, the two leagues, American and National, each had two divisions, East and West.

The Valley Club ( CAFC Supporters Club ) was situated in Harvey Gardens behind the North Stand, and was managed by licensee Ray Donn from 1970 – 1984 the club had a full club licence supplying food and drink to its members and guests during match days and live entertainment, with cabaret and dancing every night of the week.

By the beginning of 1984, quarterly sales of the ColecoVision had dramatically decreased.

Total sales of the ColecoVision are uncertain but were ultimately in excess of 2 million units, as sales had reached that number by the spring of 1984, while the console continued to sell modestly up until its discontinuation the following year.

" Earlier, in December 1984, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs had issued a report condemning the Contras and the United States government as being among the worst human rights violators in Latin America: " The CIA directed forces are among the worst human rights violators in Latin America, responsible for systematic brutality against a civilian population.

However, although Gorbachev acted as a deputy to the general secretary throughout Andropov's illness, Gorbachev's time had not yet arrived when his patron died early in 1984.

Persons who had a notable career in France returned to Corsica to write in Corsican, such as the musical producers, Dumenicu Togniotti, director of the Teatru Paisanu, which produced polyphonic musicals, 1973 – 1982, followed in 1980 by Michel Raffaelli's Teatru di a Testa Mora, and Saveriu Valentini's Teatru Cupabbia in 1984.

After several on-again / off-again talks with Atari in May and June 1984, Tramiel had secured his funding and bought Atari's Consumer Division ( which included the console and home computer departments ) in July.

In 1984 IBM introduced the Enhanced Graphics Adapter which was capable of producing 16 colors and had a resolution of 640 by 350.

Ultimately, the name change campaign lasted for a three year period from 1982 to 1984 ( Datsun badged vehicles had been progressively fitted with small " Nissan " and " Datsun by Nissan " badges from the late 1970s onward ) until the Nissan name was given prominence in 1983-although in some export markets vehicles continued to wear both the Datsun and Nissan badges until 1986.

In 1984 he married Julia Sheehan, whom he had met in Wisconsin while researching Ed Gein and other serial killers.

The PC / AT, introduced in 1984, had three 8-bit slots and five 16-bit slots, all running at the system clock speed of 6 MHz in the earlier models and 8 MHz in the last version of the computer.

When pitcher Roger Clemens arrived in Boston for the first time in 1984, he took a taxi from Logan Airport and was sure the driver had misunderstood his directions when he announced their arrival at the park.

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.