When you watch a performance like Denzel Washington's in Robert Zemeckis's "Flight" (opening Nov. 2), you want to get under the hood of it somehow, to understand what this remarkable thing is made of and what keeps it, improbably, aloft for two perilous hours.
The bowls are sometimes no more than old tin tomato cans; the children, some as young as 4, are often barefoot, and they spend perilous hours on the streets and sidewalks, weaving in and out of traffic in their torn, filthy T-shirts.
Wrenched from their communities in an act of genocide that divided and emasculated the indigenous nations, shackled men and boys as young as eight endured the perilous nine-hour journey in an open longboat.
In a daring escape, he mounted a horse, hired two guides, and began a perilous 14-hour overnight climb across the freezing mountains of north-western Iran into eastern Turkey.
He arrived at the camp in April, and says he left his wife and children in Sudan to embark on a perilous 14-hour trip across the Mediterranean sea on a small boat crammed with migrants.
CAIRO — Egypt entered a perilous 48 hours on Monday when the military delivered an ultimatum to the country's first democratically elected president, hundreds of thousands of protesters renewed calls to oust him from office and the president's Islamists allies vowed to take to the streets to stop what they called "a military coup".
The perilous, 195-hour journey that defined Mr. Armstrong's place in history — from the liftoff of Apollo 11 on July 16 , 1969 to the capsule's splashdown in the Pacific eight days later — riveted the world's attention, transcending cultural, political and generational divides in an era of profound social tumult and change in the United States.
Martin and his immediate family escaped Baghdad via a perilous 12-hour road trip to Jordan, leaving the rest of their family behind.
In just four hours a perilous journey north that had taken many of the migrants years to prepare for and weeks to complete was undone.
