Word: hazarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Benner's Outrageous! does have a way of standing out from this year's usual film fare, but the protagonists' quirky personalities are only part of the story. Odd-couple films are nothing new to American audiences, and--if one can hazard any generalizations about such movies--they tend to have a built-in pitfall. Few directors can resist the temptation to dwell on the most obvious differences between the two principals and milk every embarassed chuckle and nervous giggle out of the gag. This is acceptable for the first 15 minutes or so, but the jokes wear mercilessly...
...this jaded day, it takes nerve to present the shockaholic public with a romance unmitigated by violence, treachery, despair, psychosis or death, not even an ugly disease. A similar risk would be to serve Kool-Aid to cocaine sniffers. Surely the hazard is doubled when the offering is built on the doings of two gerontic specimens who do not even talk dirty or expose any personal equipage more intimate than the inside of an umbrella...
Berry admits that his first trekkies would not know where they might emerge or if they would ever get back. One possibility: they could construct a parallel black hole at their destination to bring them home. He also seems unconcerned about another hazard: his creation might explode in a supernova, spraying its builders with deadly radiation. Still, the author writes with such refreshing faith in science's ability to conquer all obstacles of time and space that even skeptics may be willing to suspend disbelief and join him in this dazzling armchair journey across the cosmos. Here, at least...
...significant attempts to discourage marijuana use, cannabis is more than a fad and may well prove to be an enduring cultural pattern in the U.S." Other than suggesting that smoking pot might cause lung damage. NIDA ducks the issue of whether the drug poses a serious, long-term health hazard, explaining that the question requires further study. But the agency does note that marijuana upsets psychomotor coordination, as does alcohol. Indeed, as marijuana use increases, so presumably will the number of marijuana-related highway accidents. A study of 300 fatal car crashes in the Boston area has already shown that...
...workfare scheme represents a novel attempt to zero in on the most exasperating welfare problem of all: the consistent failure of men, physically fit and in need of work to support families, to find jobs, either through state agencies or the federal work incentive program. Workfare confronts one legal hazard that could destroy it: Congress has enacted a law that bars the use of federal welfare funds as salaries, and the U.S. Government matches the state's $11 million contribution for jobless fathers of needy families. Dukakis' aides have discovered, however, that authorities in Utah have been getting...