Word: apocalypticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Feeling apocalyptic lately? If the movie of your life is a dimly lit soundstage of pain, anger and alienation, then Skinny Puppy's Last Rights is the soundtrack you've been looking for. It is harrowing.
Recently, the science fiction movie has become as dry and uninspired as the miserable futuristic landscape which serves as its inevitable setting. The Runnning Man, Terminator, and now Freejack all imagine an apocalyptic world which has been reduced, essentially, to a smoldering pile of ashes. Nuclear war and atmospheric decay...
Another test was acceptance by foreign governments, and the commonwealth was doing well on that score too. There was still a great deal of apocalyptic talk from analysts like CIA director Robert Gates, who warned that the former Soviet Union faced the greatest potential for explosive civic turmoil since the...
Columbus was in fact a very rigid man, and his inflexibility combined with piety and opportunism to produce behavior not far from paranoid. His growing ambition encouraged the belief, typical of obsessed loners, that everyone except God was against him. He was so certain that his enterprise of the Indies...
When the unknown is operating on a historic scale, it conjures up apocalyptic projections. Dick Elkus, an advisory-board member of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, predicted, "What has happened so far is a 6.0 earthquake on its way to becoming an 8.3 -- 900 times greater...