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A realistic assessment of risk should take into account the possibility of these large, low-probability events--in effect, should allow for the reality that now and then **** does indeed happen.
Instructions that came with the form counseled checking with "your tax department" or--an even less realistic option for a fellow needing to get some work done--the local office of the Small Business Administration.
The LAT waits until pretty deep into the story to raise another very realistic worry: these weapons would wreak havoc in the hands of guerrillas.
Some praise the show for its self-parodic dialogue and realistic characters who are "as annoying and self-absorbed--as people of your own acquaintance" (Barbara Phillips, the Wall Street Journal ). Others say they have no interest in watching "spineless, whiny, indecisive nitwits" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ).
G raphic Violence: Is a more realistic depiction of gore, in which someone's head is chopped off, affording a glimpse of severed tendons and gushing arteries, worse in terms of inuring viewers to violence than generic mayhem, in which the bad guys fall over dead?