Word: apocalypticism
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Bergen-Belsen was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945. Those soldiers included Brian Urquhart, now Under Secretary-General of the United Nations. "At first I saw what appeared to be a wall of logs, stacked like cordwood," Urquhart recalls. "But as I got closer, I saw it was...
At stake was Reagan's determination to resume U.S. aid, both humanitarian and military, to the Nicaraguan contras who are trying to overthrow the Marxist Sandinista regime that has ruled since 1979. Faced with growing opposition in Congress to his plan, which even some Republicans view as unwise, the President...
Written by David Seltzer (who also wrote the Ur-Apocalyptic flick The Omen), the show has some of the religious intrigue of The Da Vinci Code and some of the grim phantasmagoria of The Passion of the Christ--two successes NBC would clearly like to have rub off on it...
So often now it feels as though we’re living in the fin-de-something. Blogs at either political extreme adopt a tone of pre-apocalyptic hysteria. And the hysteric in me would call it the end of America. But the realist in me knows that miscounted votes...
Armageddon: The state of contemporary American cinema is morphed into an apocalyptic nightmarescape in this 1998 film from famed Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay. Some of the most horrifying images every committed to celluloid leap off the screen, including Liv Tyler bemoaning her father’s sacrificial heroics and...