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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.
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.
"This may just have been a piece of clever marketing, but it comes perilously close to using a financial incentive to influence the election," the editorial said.
Buchanan finds the most truth in the comparison: Dowd's suggestion is "perilously close to the truth."
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."