The black-garbed waiters walk the same line: they are welcoming, friendly and courteous, but sometimes their juggling of plates feels more homelike than professional.
Despite coming from the same pond, though, they don't all walk the same line.
His latest, "The Family," with Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer, walks the same line.
And hang on to your friendship without resentment, because I'm sure you in your rubber-soled shoes, and she in her red ones, still walk the same line.
With an amusing interrogation scene about erotic massages, some wry commentary about the declining state of the newsmagazine ("There are better ways of doing propaganda," Bahari tells his captors) and no less than three jokes about New Jersey, "Rosewater" walks the same line Stewart's Comedy Central show does in acknowledging both the gravity and the absurdity of world events.
"The Saudi royal family and the bin Laden family are walking the same fine line," the Washington business partner of the bin Ladens said.
They were both, in other words, walking the same fine line, blending urgent social comment with the slick air of commercial entertainment that is the Hollywood stock-in-trade: Meirelles's film inherited the Goodfellas swagger, while Elite Squad was the offspring of numerous nu-metal-scored butt-kickers.
The question Connecticut has to answer, he said, is, "How much gambling is enough?" Other states are walking the same fine line, hungry for gambling revenue but insistent on managing the number and location of new casinos.
Pierre-André d'Héguerty, writing about his time on the island around 1735, stated that a captive Rodrigues solitaire (which he described as having a melancholic appearance) would always walk in the same line until running out of space, and then return.
Carter was going to have to walk the same fine line, balancing his constituents' economic interests, their expectations of safety and the rights of the local Hispanic community.
