Word: apocalypticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In a way, these critics are taking their cue from the almost apocalyptic way in which many Soviets are talking about their own troubles. Perestroika, said Vladimir Brovikov, a delegate to the Communist Party plenum in February, "for five years has brought us into crisis, anarchy and economic decay." Still...
But Lenin immediately begins to have second thoughts. Perhaps the union will still have too much power over the republics. He dictates a letter -- one can only call it apocalyptic -- in which he laments that he has "failed the Russian workers for not interfering strongly enough in the so-called...
It is easy, far too easy, to poke fun at these idiosyncrasies. What Murdoch can do surpassingly well is move a narrative. Once caught in her grip, the reader flies through myriad complications, signal switches and genuine surprises. The Message to the Planet is not her strongest book. It chronicles...
Church adored Turner, the greatest theatrician of landscape who ever lived, with his cloud arches and burning transparencies, his glooms and veils of color. Church had seen a few Turners, which had found their way to America by then; he was also much influenced by the vast apocalyptic paintings of...
Brazil (1985). The movie too good to be seen! That's what Universal Pictures suggested when it hedged on releasing Terry Gilliam's apocalyptic satire about a man caught in the vise of bureaucracy. The studio couldn't see that Brazil does brilliantly what movies do best: create teeming, coherent...