Zavala was a natural athlete, who had boxed in college, and he strode across with the surefootedness of a high-wire walker.

It's like Karl Wallenda, the high-wire walker, once said: 'Walking the wire is life.

"Since I was 7, I wanted to be a high-wire walker," he said in an interview.

He profiled high-wire walkers, sumo wrestlers, movie stars, freak-show performers, rodeo bull riders and others.

(For this role, Philippe Petit, a poet and high-wire walker, was ideally cast.)

The front lawn of the beach hotel "provided a site for summer entertainment-fireworks, high-wire walkers, and bands."

At 14, at a fair in Sheffield, the fair's manager pointed to a high-wire walker and asked him if he could do that.

But she has the aerobic capacity of a distance runner and the fearlessness of a high-wire walker.

Vertigo grips again in the last tale, a slight one about our narrator's self-induced infatuation with a high-wire walker.

The Acting Company trio performs with the agility of a team of high-wire walkers while also demonstrating an evident zest for the material.