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The Post and NYT both front an astounding photograph of a Taiwanese apartment building perilously perched over the street like a giant Tower of Pisa.
She and Costner are meant to be elemental in their attractiveness, but they also demonstrate that there's a perilously thin line between the elemental and the simple-minded.
Julie Burchill wrote recently in the Guardian , "The idea that one party has to overcome the 'natural' resistance of the other party to sexual intercourse by a combination of gifts and being economical with the truth takes us perilously near to date-rape territory."
Peter Schjeldahl of the Village Voice called Renoir "the worst artist ever to achieve canonical status"; art historian Michael Fried remarked that "Renoir's native gift was perilously slight"; and critic Robert Rosenblum worried about the "sugar content" of his paintings.
This would be great for the country but tough on "News Quiz," already perilously low on favorite targets.