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How exactly Huntington's diagnosis (perilously deep fault lines) leads to his prescription (further deepen the fault lines) is a puzzle to which we'll return.
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.
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.
Buchanan finds the most truth in the comparison: Dowd's suggestion is "perilously close to the truth."
The film's centerpiece is a sequence in which the doctor perilously crashes an ornately choreographed orgy in which the rich and powerful wear cloaks and Venetian masks and ogle long-legged women as they're marshaled and disrobed by attendants.