Geopolitical tensions simmer at the outermost edges of "Dangerous Liaisons," which mostly unfolds as a divertingly lush tear-stained melodrama.
One of the first and most troubling questions to arise after Sept. 11 was whether Osama bin Laden represented a fanatical aberration of an otherwise humane and tolerant faith or whether he was the cutting edge of a dangerous and swelling sentiment in Islam.
Five Israelis were killed in a frenzied assault by two Palestinians who targeted worshippers at a Jerusalem synagogue, the latest in a series of deadly attacks that many fear is pushing the city to the edge of a dangerous escalation in violence.
They have to go to the edge of this dangerous underground cliff and sort of poke this stick out into it and try to get a scan.
Miley Cyrus is twerking on the ragged edge of a dangerous cliff.
While I was dabbling in discrimination, Eagleclaw Bunnie Thom was learning about the other edge of that dangerous sword in my hometown, Prince Albert.
At the same time our environment is teetering on the edge of a dangerous slide into global disaster, fed by ignorance and lack of appreciation that there are no walls in the sky or oceans, and one country's pollution is necessarily the responsibility of all.
There is nothing like black for having this sort of dangerous edge, this drop-dead chic".
The Moth Razor's Edge is at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney Opera House on 6 September featuring David Crabb, Dan Ilic, Suki Kim, Guy Curd, Omar Musa and Adrienne Truscott.
Parts of the edge were blunt, however (no Great Social Figure could any longer provide a sense of violation by her presence; no Negro entertainer could any longer provide a sense of the elegance of the low-down), and parts of the edge were dangerous without being interesting.
