Word: antediluvianism
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...Rafi gets no more or less sympathy than any other character in this exuberant egalitarian stew of a movie. Once the empire has died, taking with it the old notions of great men who shape destinies and insignificant men who suffer like extras in an antediluvian epic, every motive is up for grabs. And what do we find in an empire's night ashes? Punks and ghosts and madmen dancing in the carnage or singing a Motown melody as all the survivors copulate on Armageddon Eve. In Sammy & Rosie's cultural revolution, the radicals strike not poses but sexual sparks...
...combat. The liberal, Sunday fulminated, was a "hog-jowled, weasel-eyed, sponge- columned, jelly-spined, pussyfooting, four-flushing, charlotte-russed Christian." At the 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Tennessee schoolteacher was convicted of expounding evolutionary theory, Fundamentalists were ridiculed by the press and perceived by the public as antediluvian cranks. By the 1940s, conservatives who were embarrassed by the Fundamentalists' image revived the label of Evangelical for their more moderate brand of orthodoxy...
...Fine Arts Department is--well, not antediluvian maybe paleolithic or traditional in not accepting certain forms of art," said new Department Chairman Neil Levine, who took office this fall...
...stubs over its back and legs, and possessed a tail that ended in a huge bony club. Perhaps to shed excess body heat, Stegosaurus sprouted triangular-shaped fins on its back. Thanks to such biological cunning, within only a few million years, the dinosaurs became the overlords of their antediluvian domain...
Despite its relative youth and somewhat dilapidated appearance, Lever House is as worthy a landmark as Grand Central Terminal. If Lever House, which is smaller than zoning codes permit, is an inefficient moneymaker and a somewhat obsolete office building, Grand Central is almost antediluvian. Nonetheless, New York's historic preservationists won an important battle five years ago when the Supreme Court defeated a preposterous proposal to build a new skyscraping tower on the old structure...