Amy Heckerling's "Look Who's Talking" begins poetically, with an ovum's perilous fall through dreamy white fallopian tissue toward conception.
As the two dangle down the side of the dam, Bob decides to cut the cord on the dynamite in an act of self-sacrifice to prevent Cecil from destroying the town, but his and Bart's perilous fall is broken by a conveniently placed pipe.
As top Hollywood stuntwomen, Melissa Stubbs and Kathy Jarvis not only know their way around roundhouse kicks and perilous falls, they could likely whip every journalist in attendance around a racetrack — in a car or motorcycle.
A section of a Dorset coastal path is in a "perilous state" after cliff falls, the coastguard has said.
The stakes could hardly be higher now, as India-Pakistan relations fall to a perilous new low.
She goes through a harrowing flight and a perilous customs interrogation, and then falls into the thuggish hands of the drug network at its New Jersey end.
Many may chastise the Brits for being too safe, but this year's ceremony was capped off by a perilous performance by Madonna, who fell from the stage during her rendition of new single Living For Love.
In all, with Putin behaving like "a Bond villain," the country on alert against a nuclear North Korea, and the Oval Office occupied by a reality-TV personality, Clinton seemed to feel that a line had been crossed; the country had fallen into a perilous state of unreality.
