Word: perilousness
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There seems little doubt that certain CIA and other Government secrets can be violated only at peril to the nation. Some projects, notably the CIA'S 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, may well need what Justice Louis Brandeis called "the disinfectant" of public exposure. But in the case of Project Jennifer, given what editors knew at the time, they were right to use restraint...
...economic problems, he now sees himself as the sound-money "conscience" of the Government, repeating dire warnings that he knows few politicians want to hear. To a nation frightened by the deepest recession and highest unemployment since before Pearl Harbor, Simon insists that inflation is the greater long-run peril. To a Congress bent on cutting taxes and raising spending far more than the Administration wants, Simon endlessly preaches the dangers of overstimulation. His gloom seems excessive, but he is making some points worth heeding...
...Yellow Peril. Even on unassailable territory, Hearts and Minds cannot let hell enough alone. When General Westmoreland makes the infamous statement that the Oriental does not prize life as highly as the Westerner, the footage is juxtaposed with a sequence of weeping Vietnamese as a body is lowered into the parched earth. Weaker still is the film's examination of popular culture. Clips are offered from the 1942 film Bataan, from Bob Hope movies and American Legion war games of the McCarthy epoch. These imply that motion pictures are instruments of behavioral conditioning: we fought the Viet...
...plot? Does one tattle on Sherlock Holmes? No. But yes, there is a beauteous lady in distress, purloined papers, low, seedy minicriminals, velvety London fogs, the claustrophobic peril of a sealed gas chamber and Holmes' agile Houdini-like escape from it. Over everything lurks the brooding presence of Moriarty, played by Philip Locke like a Mephistophelean raven of evil...
Since Airport 1975 is a sequel to Airport, with its patented formula-panic in the skies, dither on the ground-it is reasonable to assume that the passengers on this Columbia Airlines 747 are going to find themselves in grave peril...