Word: apocalypticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As children have always bloodily expired, Powers writes in his mood of apocalyptic gloom. His hero, tormented by daymares and night sweats, broods by the dozens of pages over the medieval horror of the Children's Crusade, relishes at chapter-length the cold irony of the Pied Piper legend, written...
The White House's plan establishes an array of reserves encompassing key watersheds and old-growth stands, an innovative strategy intended to protect the most ecologically essential areas of the forests and thereby preserve the habitat of spotted owls, salmon and countless other species. The blueprint allows for average annual...
The visions were apocalyptic: bomb blasts spreading fire and smoke through United Nations headquarters and a lower Manhattan skyscraper that houses, of all things, the New York offices of the FBI. Other explosions the same day in the Holland and Lincoln tunnels under the Hudson River, crushing motorists inside cars...
Otherwise, the "Aperto" is apocalyptic trivia, devoid of aesthetic impulse. Everything is on much the same dull, hectoring, narcissistic and politically simpleminded level; all complexity of artistic response has been ironed down into puerile rhetoric, one-liners that have no further resonance once you've got their meager point. Some...
O.K., so what movies are bad for kids? "By day, children use their imagination to create things," says David Kirschner, producer of both the G- rated Once Upon a Forest and the R-rated killer-doll Child's Play series. "Then by night they have very dark visions about what...