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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."
from generation to generation" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). A few, like Pearl K. Bell in the Wall Street Journal , find "a surfeit of sweetly obedient docility" in the novel and say parts are "perilously at the edge of sentimentality."
Price-earnings ratios are perilously high in both.
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.
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.