Word: perilously
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...will be blown away by them. Port, like so many Bertolucci heroes a passive creature whose bravado consists in allowing chance to work its will on him, at first believes he will enjoy feeling stranger in a strange land. North Africa, he thinks, will offer escape into adventure, exotic peril, the seductions of oblivion. He is wrong. The desert demands his surrender. The sand is quicksand; it will swallow him whole...
...last week's cliff-hangers made clear, politicians ignore such tasks at their own peril. Big-name national figures learned they could not take local issues for granted while they pursued a national agenda. For all his stature as a potential presidential candidate, Bill Bradley very nearly fell victim to a local political battle over New Jersey Governor Jim Florio's detested $2.8 billion tax hike. Bradley tried to hide from voter wrath against Florio, but he was the only target in sight; in the end he squeezed into office with 51% of the vote, down from 64% six years...
...George Bush warned last Tuesday, "no nation can continue to do business the way the Federal Government has been operating and survive," the U.S. is in peril. So it seemed for several tumultuous days in Washington last week. Only two nights after the President's nationally televised address, an angry coalition of right-wing Republicans and liberal Democrats revolted on the floor of the House, overwhelming and sinking a bipartisan plan to rein in the rampaging deficit. The uprising left the government without a budget or the authority to spend money for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, forcing...
...This peril to the West can be developed until the crowd swirling around the L.S.U. stadium feels that bastion of civilization is rocking on its base -- all from the output of one woman's womb...
...their readiness to take on the Japanese luxury cars, but their fear is showing. "The Lexus is not a Mercedes, but as a portent of what they are able to do, it is more worrying," says John Evans, a British spokesman for Mercedes. "You ignore the Japanese at your peril...