The peripheral characters -- the ex-prostitute with a heart of gold; the brash, endearing ex-cop from the Bronx; the glib, menacing State Department liaison -- are easy enough to sort out as well.
While the large creature in the video is evidently menacing, experts state the barrel jellyfish's stings cause no harm to humans but that it is best not to handle them either.
Insults thrown at their key antagonists, the "US imperialists and their stooges" sound more comical than menacing: various state leaders have been described as "confrontation maniacs" "rabid dogs" and in the case of former US vice president Dick Cheney "a mentally deranged person steeped in the inveterate enmity towards the system in the DPRK".
That turbulence was threatening not just the survival of Egypt, but, more to the point, it was menacing the vast state within a state that Egypt's military presides over.
For the Record Los Angeles Times Friday May 21 , 1999Home Edition Southern California Living Part E Page 3 View Desk 2 inches; 48 words Type of Material: Correction 'Phantom' premiere--A story that appeared Tuesday on the benefit premiere of "Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace" stated that the event raised $250,000 for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
But they weren't marching or menacing the great state of Oklahoma.
India fears that a Pakistani Kashmir, or an independent one that looked towards its fellow Muslim country, would be an impregnable redoubt menacing its rich northern states.
Their political philosophy menaces the functioning state on which political order depends.
That will probably swell the state budget deficit, menacing the central bank's worthy efforts to kill inflation.Mr Meciar, however, will not lose much sleep over his country's ugly politics or dubious economics.
Brown sent a shot across the Legislature's bow Monday in unveiling his latest budget plan, saying that the state faces a menacing "wall of debt" and that the new revenue would make only a dent in it.
