Word: perilousness
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Both parties to this debate make grave errors in their ideological intransigence. The anti-Robertson left makes a faulty jump from Robertson's pseudo-scholarship, which is genuinely dangerous, to what they falsely take to be the peril of the entire Christian Right. They threaten to compromise the validity of their legitimate critique of Robertson's book by smuggling into that critique a liberal political agenda that smacks of political partisanship, not a general concern for confronting the evil of anti-Semitism...
...focused on supposed threats from the U.S., which he portrayed as a creature of Freemasons and Jews bent on destroying Japan. The conspiracy's weapons: sex and junk food. The guru's sermons predicted the end of the world sometime between 1997 and 2000, and began citing the specific peril of poison-gas attacks...
...travel through her computer into a virtual universe in which she can tap into the minds of other people. A genius in a T shirt and Timberlands, Sydney has devised this technology herself, but she cannot control the environments she enters. As a result, she often finds herself in peril. Neverthe-less, she is unable to stay in the real world and relinquish virtual-reality voyaging. "You give it up, and you'll be free," says her mentor. "I'm free when I'm in there," Sydney blankly responds...
...current superberg probably won't get that far, and it might not even leave Antarctica. On the other hand, it may not be the only new peril in southern waters. Says Thomson: "The ice adjacent to where the iceberg broke away has big north-south cracks--we could see these when we flew over." So another country-size slab of ice could be heading out to sea at just about any time...
Alas, the language barrier. Stewardesses ineffectually shouted "No smoking" at various volumes. Helpful passengers translated, "Ne fumez pas," but were unwilling to translate the Kings' frank responses. Just as we all seemed in peril of perishing of carbon monoxide poisoning, the flight crew wisely decided to show the in-flight movie, Forrest Gump...