Word: apocalypticism
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Most of the story is told by a bright, troubled girl named Mercy, daughter of a preacher whose church has been taken over by religious zealots. "If rain had come, things might have turned out differently," she says. "That is what I think now. But there were children in Outer...
Coupland has mastered the art of the precisely timed witticism, the understatement and the random comic comparison. His language dances around its subjects, as when Richard discovers that the end of the world has come and "an adrenaline fang bites the rear of his neck." Coupland extends his metaphor of...
THE last images of the war: U.S. Marines with rifle butts pounding the fingers of Vietnamese who tried to claw their way into the embassy compound to escape from their homeland. An apocalyptic carnival air--some looters wildly driving abandoned embassy cars around the city until they ran out of...
So last week, in that spacious rancho Santa Fe mansion, with the bougainvillaea in full bloom outside, 39 bodies were laid out on their backs on bunk beds, looking like so many laboratory specimens pinned neatly to a board. Each was dressed in black pants, flowing black shirt, spanking-new...
The plague missed us this time. But it's always safe to watch it on tape. Start with a camp classic: Charlton Heston is The Omega Man(1971). The part must have a dream for Chuck: as the last man on Earth after a biological weapon decimates the human race...