Word: perilousness
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...opportunities for candidates to paste labels on their opponents in the guise of discussing issues. In 1988 flag burning didn't force its way into the presidential campaign because the burning of flags had become so widespread that public order, not to speak of air quality, was in peril. There were even fewer people involved in flag burning than there are in "partial birth" abortions, a 1996 wedge hypothetical. George Bush was merely looking for another way to call Michael Dukakis a "card-carrying member of the A.C.L.U...
...region's political, cultural and economic character, perhaps forever. At issue was not peace vs. security: all Israelis crave both, and each candidate vowed he could deliver both, if by vastly different means. For voters the choices resolved themselves into something deeply psychological: hope vs. fear, opportunity vs. peril, a plunge into a risky future or an overhasty abandoning of the familiar, go-it-alone past. Was it wise to put faith in the dream of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Labor leader Shimon Peres, who promised a New Middle East crafted of compromise, or to heed the warnings of Netanyahu...
...most in peril would be Arafat, whose credibility with Palestinians is hardly high enough to sustain further disappointments. He desperately needs proof that his peace concessions have not been in vain and would profit from fast-paced discussions on the territories' final status, but he faces a new Israeli government more intent on slowing everything way down. Says Souheil Natoor of the hard-line Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine: "Now the Palestinians are saying to Arafat, 'You did whatever the Israelis asked of you. And the result is the Israelis voted against peace.' The Palestinians will...
...table through it--and the balance is suddenly perfect, despite but actually because of this shift of gear. Then there is the play between mass and instability--how the fruit in the dishes is so grandly solid, while the plates themselves tilt just enough to convey an underlying peril. The relationships in a still life were as infinite to Cezanne as those in a landscape: "These glasses, these plates, they talk among themselves," he wrote to his friend Joachim Gasquet. "Interminable disclosures...
With the arrival of every John Grisham thriller comes the inevitable question: What exceedingly bankable, cute-as-a-button superstar will take on the role of beleaguered but principled defense counsel, first-year associate or eager law student in sweaty peril? In July the film version of Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, arrives in movie theaters with Sandra Bullock. Since movie versions of The Firm (Tom Cruise), The Client (Susan Sarandon) and The Pelican Brief (Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington) have cumulatively grossed close to $600 million worldwide, adaptations of the rest of the canon...