Deadpan, Mr. Favreau leaves the dialogue teetering on a high wire between mock and earnest.
British designers always have trod a high wire between heritage and rebellion.
There is hope here for Manuel, a former crack addict on a high wire between saving himself and the abyss.
"It concerned the Twin Towers, but it was about Philippe Petit, who walked a high wire between them.
One of the center's most memorable moments came in 1974, when a Frenchman named Philippe Petit walked across a high wire between the two 110-story towers.
The walk would have happened seven years after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and two years after Philippe Petit walked on a high wire between the twin towers.
Reading Lawrence Osborne's new novel, "The Forgiven," you may sometimes feel that you are straddling that line in a vertiginous way, like Philippe Petit walking a high wire between the World Trade Center towers.
His restaurant, Ilo, has had critics reaching for superlatives since it opened 12 weeks ago in the Bryant Park Hotel, with a menu balanced on a high wire between dishes like 24-hour honeycomb tripe and striped bass with fancy cousins of Tater Tots.
