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While some dorm crew workers have discoveredinteresting or profitable items in the room, forothers the work has been nothing but tedious,tiring and dirty. Even the least messy jobs, likemaking beds, can be fraught with peril...
Noting that 40% of the disputed manuscript's pages contained quoted and paraphrased materials, Copyright Lawyer Roger Zissu sees a more limited peril. "Most historians and biographers don't write books that are that dependent on the subject's correspondence," says Zissu, who was not involved in the case but who successfully represented Gerald Ford's publishers when they sued the Nation magazine for printing key excerpts from the former President's unpublished memoirs...
...sensuality. But the song, Keith Sweat's soul hit I Want Her, doomed him. Some classic Motown would have given him a fighting chance: the familiar opening chords might have warmed the crowd before he even opened his mouth. But Sweat's ode to funky frustration was fraught with peril. Topping Billboard's soul chart, it was so hot that even the most gifted mimic could not have carried it off, at least not here...
...barrel-jump over five people in the show's opening number. "You're wearing two 4-lb. skates and a costume weighing 25 lbs.," he notes. "In order to clear the people, I had to get my speed up to 35 m.p.h. It was a knee killer." Musicians face peril as well. Pinched nerves and muscle cramps caused by repetitive hand motions are common. Violinists suffer everything from fiddler's neck rash to complete jaw displacements. Trumpeters get neck hernias and muscle tears around their mouths. Bagpipers are prone to lung infections from fungus that grows inside the bag. Clarinetists...
...crisis of Swaggart's conscience that brought peril to this empire. The evangelist confronted his sin only because Assemblies' leaders had been provided with sordid information. Their chief evidence was incriminating photos taken last fall outside New Orleans at a down-at-the-heels motel called the Travel Inn. The pictures showed a prostitute welcoming a series of men; Swaggart was seen both entering and leaving her room. According to a person present at the ten-hour session in Springfield, Swaggart confessed that he had battled an obsession with pornography since his youth and had been a periodic backslider...