When Mao Zedong's bodyguard, Wang Dongxing, who has died aged 99, joined the plot to arrest Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, and her associates in the "Gang of Four" after Mao's death in China in 1976, he knew it was a high-risk affair.
His current Hamlet, his sixth apparently, is a rather dry, risk-free affair chiefly worth seeing for Michael Maloney's central performance.
Every contract and every business agreement is a risk-sharing affair.
Boredom is a sickness, a blight on contemporary life, secondary only in its capacity for damage to the self-destructive things we do to relieve it: eating too much, getting hammered, picking fights (virtual or in real life), taking stupid risks, having affairs, mooching mindlessly around the shops buying things we don't really need.
But the affair risks rekindling memories of PT sleaze that the incumbent wished to put behind her.
Narziss' search for the elusive, transcendental love he craves leads him to take greater and greater risks until an affair goes wrong and he almost loses his life.
"Whether the committee leans for or against Dilma will depend very much on what happens on the streets," said Lucas de Aragão, a partner at the political risk and public affairs consultancy Arko Advice.
But the affair risks tainting the whole party.In this section Losing the franchise Paraguay's general makes his come-back Down to earth Too much Scandals left and right ReprintsMr Ortega denies the charges.
Though the pope ate with the homeless, visited prisoners in jail, and drew crowds of thousands to mass prayers in three cities, in the end, the Davis affair risked curdling his message and undermining his cool image.
Night-biting culex pipiens obliged first; now day-biting Aedes japonicus has made the risk a 24-hour affair.
After all, upping the bad guy ante any further for the second instalment of Snyder's Superman reboot would risk plummeting the whole affair into high camp.
