Word: apocalypticism
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In another corner is “Cenotaph” by Steve Hollinger, which consists of a lever one pushes to activate a flipbook inside a block of concrete. A series of prisms allows the viewer to see the negative silhouette of a man dancing with a spear and what...
I am not blind to Hilles’ faults. It has water-stained carpets, an exhibit space that has no exhibit, an unpopularity amongst undergraduates so decimating that it has a post-apocalyptic feeling. But I love Hilles— the way it looms, bright-lit, above you suddenly as...
At the height of Shoko Asahara's power as leader of the apocalyptic Aum Shinrikyo cult, followers paid exorbitant sums for the honor of drinking the guru's blood. Since 1995, when Aum carried out a poison-gas attack that killed 12 people in the Tokyo subway, the rest of...
The most memorable Republican scandals of our lifetimes, meanwhile, are devoid of sexual excitement, but packed with violence—first in the Reagan administration’s use of Iranian gun money to finance terrorists in Latin America, and now in the emerging scandal over whether we invaded another...
Today, as the BJP heads toward what it is convinced will be its third term in government, the doomsayers' more apocalyptic predictions have proved unfounded. India has not become a Hindu state and is still the world's largest democracy. Its press is still remarkably free and its judiciary by...