Word: perilousness
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...also seems the FDO ignores the fact that the students who walk through the Yard are not just first-years, and that they are equally at peril. We should not forget that a sophomore making the long walk back to the river is no less vulnerable than a first-year walking home from the Carpenter Center at 3 a.m. Just because we get a little bit older and move out of the Yard, it does not mean that we should be banned from relying on our former homes as areas of safety...
...Chicago Tribune.) But Kingsley puts the film in league with ancient dramatic traditions that used less plausible, more hyperbolic plotlines to pound home a point. "The Greeks embraced tragic drama," he says. "We are a society dedicated to the outlawing of tragedy, and we outlaw it at our peril." (He's exaggerating a bit - this year's other Oscar contenders include fine modern tragedies like Clint Eastwood's melancholy Mystic River.) Movies like House spring from "the ancient tradition of telling heartbreakingly sad stories, but hugging each other afterward," he says. "Audiences can recognize themselves and their own doubts...
...some Labour M.P.s have wanted to signal deep frustration that Downing Street policy wonks don't consult them enough before uncorking big bills. "There's been too much policy by laptop," admits James Purnell, a former Downing Street wonk who is now an M.P. Government whips hoped that the peril Blair faced from Hutton would forge party discipline for the vote on tuition fees, but rebels dismissed that as scaremongering. They doubted that Hutton, an establishment figure whose every judicial inclination has been to avoid meddling in politics, would really blast the Prime Minister so fiercely that Blair would have...
...Neill, who didn't know the President but trusted the wise counselor beside him. So it was perhaps fitting that Cheney would take O'Neill out. Weeks after Bush had assured O'Neill that rumored staff changes in the economic team did not mean his job was in peril, Cheney called. "Paul, the President has decided to make some changes in the economic team. And you're part of the change," he told O'Neill. The bloodless way he was cut loose by his old chum shocked O'Neill, Suskind writes, but what came after was even more shocking. Cheney...
...Lund), the cop (William Demarest) and a few businessmen all wait for the witching hour. Then [SPOILER] a mysterious figure moves the minute hand on the grandfather clock ahead, and when that clock chimes 11 the girl and her protectors (who never look at their own watches) think all peril is over. That?s when the murderer strikes. Jeez...