Word: apocalypticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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For this audience, the welfare chiseler is an icon of moral theft rather than a real challenge to the pocketbook. (Welfare in Louisiana is stingy; aid for dependent children takes only 2% of the state budget.) Duke's people are affronted by the thought that large bodies of blacks are...
Last year -- with the Soviet Union officially willing as never before to hear the often ugly truth about its past, with Mikhail Gorbachev emulating some of Khrushchev's reforms and with the "special pensioner" of Petrovo- Dalneye undergoing a posthumous rehabilitation -- TIME acquired the missing tapes. It was no wonder...
But of all the studies and proposals, the one by a couple of New Jersey intellectuals has raised the greatest storm out on the plains. Frank Popper, head of Rutgers University's urban-studies department, is a land planner who has poked his way down the neglected and withering trails...
Between first acknowledgment of mortality and this final acceptance of it, we see death attempting to lure a mountaineer lost in a blizzard; we share the guilt of an army officer -- the only member of his unit to survive the war - -- as he confronts the ghosts of his fallen comrades...
Every year when Americans celebrate Memorial Day, Hollywood launches its summer star wars. The big studios trot out their big names -- tough guys with flinty stares and handsome hair -- to swagger through apocalyptic fantasies. See cars blow up! See Mars blow up! See budgets and salaries go up! See the...