Word: apocalypticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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A Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oklahoma, Choate was once Tennessee's economic-development commissioner: after he left in 1974, a state audit found his office had spent extravagantly (on staff trips and entertainment) and had "completely violated" laws regarding competitive bidding, but he was never formally charged...
Once the spectacle of "The Hollowmen" has been duly appreciated, however, there are still some important questions to be asked. For example: why this poem, when the music and action have almost nothing to do with the text's mood and meaning? It quickly becomes clear that the spirit of...
The film's well-executed special effects and adventure sequences show that there is nothing wrong with borrowing from other movies so long as it's done well. Viewers will have flashbacks to a wide array of adventure, sci-fi, and apocalyptic classics: "Star Wars," "Top Gun," "Alien," "The Day...
For many of us, it was a time of wild mood swings in which the dream-like unreality of a Harvard in near chaos was periodically trumped by the anxious reality of a draft lottery, if not a draft notice. The fey Brattle Street bohemian culture that greeted us in...
These speculations gain currency almost daily as Yeltsin reaches for ever more apocalyptic "red scare" metaphors. When the President says, "I cannot let the forces of the past come to power; I will resist their comeback in every way," his aides nod in agreement. "I know what it would mean...