Word: apocalypticism
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I find a greater number of people look the same, dress the same, and have similar goals, and this homogeneity can only lead to the apocalyptic conclusion that we all might think the same.
Veteran pitchers Dave McNally and Andy Messersmith took major league baseball to court contesting the contractual monoplies that teams held over players. By winning their suit, McNally and Messersmith insured that any player not satisfied with the salary his team was willing to pay him could exercise his option to...
As in any Bondage fantasy, hero and bimbo attempt to defuse the situation, only to get captured, manacled and headed toward annihilation. But Dr. Castro is not Dr. No, Che is not Goldfinger, and the Cuban missile crisis was not some apocalyptic fantasy. It is to Buckley's credit that...
Beckmann aimed to be a psychological--if not a literal--realist in a bad age: the Courbet of the cannibals. His work crystallized in the face of two major subjects, the first World War (in which he served the German army as a volunteer medical orderly, until the unremitting chaos...
The production takes the play out of its unreal "bare interior, grey light" and into a post-apocalyptic reality that manages to be much more effective and powerful than a 28-year-old musing on being and nothingness. The subway cars, the flickering overhead light, the crumbling walls and ceiling...