Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...postwar color technology had so expanded the usable universe of hues that without some sort of coordination, the public was in imminent danger of being overwhelmed by mismatched home furnishings, clashing car interiors, repellent fashion combinations--in short, a crisis of widespread bad taste. Thus was the CMG born, and ever since, a small army of colorists has congregated twice a year to bring order out of chaos. In closed caucuses, members hash out the social and political trends affecting future tastes, then produce the 15 color "directions" that will appear everywhere three years hence...
...Wednesday to head the Pentagon. The former Republican congressman told his colleagues in an equally amicable confirmation hearing that the U.S. cannot be "the world's policeman" and should limit its commitment in Bosnia. Instead he called for turning attention to Asia: "Our interests are potentially jeopardized by the danger of instability and rivalry among major regional powers...
...make it my country," he writes. "I love America because it did the same for millions of others from everywhere. I love it because it is an experiment in living and governing beyond anything dreamed of before. But I'm also disappointed by America because it seems in danger of bungling the experiment...
...take this dialogue at face value," he says. He goes on to say that he knows that the author of the humor piece clearly had not intended to make light of the Holocaust. Yet Danilewitz still feels that the piece shouldn't have been printed because "There is real danger that readers flipping through the latest issue of Demon who do not have time to ponder the subtleties of the authors' convoluted sarcasm would have taken away little more than the new and dangerous attitude that the Holocaust is fair game for knee-slapping satirization...
...punctuating the bolts of rhetoric, Branagh is a whiz at making the poetry colloquial and intelligible; he spits out the 400-year-old verse like a rapmaster," says Corliss. "But he can't so easily make it poetic. What's lacking in this merchant of culture is Olivier's danger, the preening beauty and sweet delirium that makes an actor a star. Those are precisely the qualities that keep this admirable ?Hamlet? -- and ?Hamlet? -- from being a thrilling...