The same can be said for the confluence of the China Dream and the mounting perils of America's savings-short economy.
One of the key findings of the most recent United Nations report on the mounting perils of climate change is that rising temperatures pose a distinct risk to indigenous people, who are often small farmers, fishers or herders.
Out of public view, Mark Harris's perils were mounting.
But what made Mr. Pinter special was his instinct for how small perils mount up and taint ordinary life, how what you've buried years ago -- memories, true feelings -- will get out and strike back.
Not because they were blind to the city's mounting racial crisis or to the perils of smoking or sexism, but rather because, fiscally speaking, they were paying their due.
Sometimes the play really is the thing, to the exclusion of almost everything else, most notably in comedies that explore the joys, perils and humiliations of mounting a show and the sublime self-centeredness of those involved in the process.
Jones, meanwhile, was fighting allegations of financial fraud, and his mounting paranoia and disdain for the perils of capitalism and classism in America inspired him to move the Temple to the tiny South American nation of Guyana.
In Syria, Kassig told me, he had recently encountered new levels of danger and unpredictability, and he acknowledged that the perils of travelling there were mounting.
Interviews with over two dozen people involved in the episode suggest that Sony — slow to realize the depths of its peril — let its troubles deepen by mounting a public defense only after enormous damage had been done.
But faced with untold billions in costs and mounting casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, Americans are beginning to see the advantages of sidekicks who know the perils of empire.
