Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what she does uniquely well? Perhaps because Hollywood just now does not care to see the blowsy, pug-beautiful singer, alone and proud on the screen. Instead it wants a Bette Midler like the woman she plays in Ruthless People: bound and blindfolded and sending out comic danger signals. Illuminating these undemanding comedies uses about one green fingernail's worth of her gift...
...complaints rise that the Japanese are cheating on the deal, the semiconductor pact is in danger of unraveling. Moreover, a panel of experts investigating the military's chip supplies has concluded in a report to the Pentagon that only major Government intervention can save the U.S. chipmakers. The report recommends that the Defense Department invest some $2 billion over the next five years for research and development in chip-building technology. Says Martin Marietta President Norman Augustine, who chaired the advisory panel: "If we don't do this or something akin to this, the U.S. semiconductor industry will...
...tone of the speech was neither defiant nor belligerent, but the words were fraught with danger for bankers around the world. As the television camera zoomed in and a concerned nation watched, a somber Brazilian President Jose Sarney dispensed with niceties and got right to the point: "I want to announce that the country is suspending payments of interest on its foreign debt." The action was necessary, he said, to prevent Brazil from running out of money. Still, he continued, "it was not easy to make a decision of this magnitude...
...longer a question of students graduating high school with 5th-grade reading levels. Many young people can't even read at all. The author and teacher Jonathan Kozol has said that more than 25 million Americans are illiterate. If people are unable to read, our entire democracy is in danger...
...German officer; Christopher Plummer lounged through just such a role in Hanover Street. A heartbreakingly young and beautiful Englishwoman (already played by Deborah Kerr, Julie Andrews et al.) is caught up in the action, as such tales require, feeling "not just sexual desire" but "the promise of danger, excitement of a kind she had never dreamed of before...