These vivid places are compacted into the television, facilitating a kind of tourism and exploration that is both convenient and peril-free.
In cinema's earliest decades, screen violence was tame and peril-free, comprised of "ox-stunning fisticuffs", as Vladimir Nabokov described it.
You would still smile, thinking back wistfully to the "nice-smelling guy you smooched during intermission at 'The Book of Mormon.' " I'm not saying that kissing is a hundred per cent peril-free.
Just because I want to kiss someone doesn't mean I want to love that person, share a bed with him, remind him to take his Lipitor, tell him not to use so much salt, or share one AOL e-mail account.... I'm not saying that kissing is a hundred per cent peril-free.
This week, hundreds of Internet activists, bloggers and officials from the public and private sectors will gather in Budapest to talk about the promise and peril of free expression on the Internet.
They were educating — in a panic, possibly, knowing the anger in the Arab street — about the perils of free speech.
Today it is more than ever a politically charged symbol of the promises and perils of free trade.
"The world has learned about the perils of free market finance — global financial liberalization just does not work as advertised," said Dani Rodrik, a political economy professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
[C4.] Promises and Perils of Free Trade The North American Free Trade Agreement, which took hold 10 years ago, has stimulated trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico and overall growth, but it has also brought jarring dislocations.
By the time Senators Clinton and Obama finished their most recent debate, it was worth wondering whether Mr. Perot would be able to drink a glass of water while the two candidates took turns warning of the perils of free trade, open borders and job creation in nations with emerging economies.
One trouble, for those not exhilarated by it all, was that you might lose your chosen protagonist, or that the fragments you walked in on randomly might not add up to much of a play at all: the perils of free choice.
