Word: apocalypticism
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Although the "new casualness" evinced by the President's Levi's-and-sweater wardrobe may convince some that Carter is a man of little pretention, others are equally certain that the peanut farmer's meteoric rise from obscurity to prominence has resulted in a "Messiah complex" of apocalyptic proportions. However...
Stanley Kubrick has seen the future and it doesn't work, judging by his apocalyptic vision better known as A Clockwork Orange. Malcolm McDowell's Alex and his trusted droogs mug, rape and generally terrorize their way through a British Sodom masquerading as a civilized society. If your stomach holds...
But there are moments when Browne realizes his genius. Combining natural imagery with personal observations, he reaches his purest emotional level on "The Fuse." This song clicks like clockwork, both musically and lyrically. As he shifts from soft to hard rock during the track, Browne conveys his apocalyptic vision of...
On Sept. 21, 1938, seven years before the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima, a hurricane descended with almost as little warning upon the northeast coastline of the U.S. Until then the land-lubbing public had known of "gales," "tempests," "blows," even "a bit of weather." But "hurricane" was a new...
In a cabin somewhere down below, he had spent his honeymoon. Now he could not find the cabin-or much of anything else. Gazing through the window of a helicopter, Colorado's Governor Richard Lamm, 41, stared in silence at the apocalyptic scene along the banks of the Big...