Word: apocalypticism
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Keeping it real was key to Dillon's vision. Influenced by sources as varied as Samuel Fuller's low-budget House of Bamboo and Joseph Conrad's nightmarish novel Heart of Darkness, City of Ghosts is the first Western movie to capture the atmosphere of post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia: the...
No one would mistake these camps for three-star hotels. Nothing is easy here. Blinding, unseasonably fierce dust storms are turning the sky apocalyptic orange. The wind and sand blast the skin and destroy tents. Rain turns the desert into sludge. Troops wash their clothes in cardboard boxes lined with...
Songs: Ohia dig deep into heartland rock traditions, and the results are startlingly good. Opener “Farewell Transmission” is enough to sell you on the album right away. It’s an apocalyptic tour-de-force: seven and a half minutes of crunching guitar and...
“To those who have taken a more apocalyptic view, that preregistration would mean the end of academic life as we know it, almost every other great university in this country does fine with preregistration,” said Summers.
Distance once helped dampen the effects of human wickedness, and weapons once had limited range. But evil has burst into a new dimension. The globalization, democratization and miniaturization of the instruments of destruction (nuclear weapons or their diabolical chemical-biological stepbrothers) mean a quantum leap in the delivery systems of...