Word: perilous
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...HARD TO SAY WHAT WAS MORE SHOCKING ABOUT THE death of Elisa Izquierdo--the endless savagery inflicted on her body and mind, or the stubborn inaction of the New York City agencies that were repeatedly informed of her peril. But while the murder of Elisa by her mother is appalling, it is hardly unexpected. In the death zones of America's postmodern ghetto, stripped of jobs and human services and sanitation, plagued by AIDS, tuberculosis, pediatric asthma and endemic clinical depression, largely abandoned by American physicians and devoid of the psychiatric services familiar in most middle-class communities, deaths like...
Because of their devoted audience, and the fact that religious novels have a longer shelf life than secular ones, publishers plan to expand and diversify. The next wave is likely to be adventures and spy thrillers aimed at a big untapped market: men. There is plenty of peril left in the Northwest to provide fodder for those adventure novels. But espionage depends on deception, double dealing and lying. It's hard to see how God will work his way without ruining the plot...
...much to commend in the way this lofty experiment has played out, it finds the U.N.'s charter conference an affair doomed by internal contradictions. Haunted by the disaster of appeasement, the framers assumed all humanity would rally behind the rescue of any country, no matter how remote the peril to any other country's vital interest. They believed each government would surrender at any time its warmaking powers to a supranational force. They provided not at all for conflicts within nations, and they considered open debate and resolutions of goodwill to be a cure for all evils...
...enterprise is fraught with peril. While the combined company will possess a legendary treasure trove, it also must deal with several crowned heads and princelings whose egos and territorial rights must be either respected or dealt with before they can cause trouble. The very size of the venture is likely to focus the regulatory eye of government on the transaction. And many wonder whether the growth Levin and Turner promised from the combined companies' assets can really be achieved...
...ticket sales. That pejorative expression that has so much currency--"obviously written with a movie in mind"--requires qualification when applied to Crichton. "I think of Michael as the high priest of high concept," says Spielberg. All right, concept: Island. Theme park. Dinosaurs. Adults swallowed whole. Kids in peril. Easy. But who said the author had to give us the history of computers along with it? And chaos theory? Fractal vs. Euclidean geometry? And the workings of a Stegosaurus gizzard? And dna? So much dna it's a wonder Crichton hasn't been called as an expert witness...