The once-obscure Danger Mouse was instantly catapulted to fame, getting high-profile gigs producing Gorillaz and others; Gnarls Barkley, his group with the singer Cee-Lo Green, scored a No. 1 hit around the world with "Crazy".
Surely fat bonuses helped obscure the dangers.
It is not, however, a reason to shut down a promising industry.But the industry's promise should not obscure its dangers, especially when it comes to the fuel it provides.
Those who fall into the so called "pro-prostitution" camp have defended themselves, claiming that women's welfare is their top priority and that they believe the focus on trafficking obscures other dangers that sex workers experience.
Booming equity markets have obscured the danger of this debt overhang.
The Ministry of Defence and the intelligence agencies are still obscure, while the danger from terrorism makes it easier to invoke national security and allows the Home Office and the police to cut civil liberties.
Security drills were rarely held, there were no armed guards protecting the foreign workers' living quarters, risk assessment policies obscured the true dangers and Algerian gendarmes arrived well after terrorists had seized the main compound, he explained in his narrative verdict.
With all those Test centuries, and a batting average of 48.30, he will never be in danger of an obscure place in the annals of the game.
This aspect of the show is very engaging, but although writer Rainald Goetz and the production team strive to respond to Koons' life and work, not merely to explain it, the show remains so wilfully obscure that there is a danger that those who know little of Koons will leave knowing a lot less.
The lurid attraction of a Donald Trumpresidentialprelectional election spectacle is likely to obscure another clear and present political danger that will be hidden from most Americans.
