Word: apocalypticism
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But sculpture was basically too material an art for Popova. A gifted colorist, she wanted to explore what illusions of visual depth and energy a flat surface could contain. One sees this ambition unfolding phase by phase with a steadfast, though unprogrammed, logic. Malevich catalyzed her in 1915, but her...
Armageddon is a serious game that any number can play. The electronic bulletin boards offered by such computer networks as CompuServe and Genie are stuffed with doomsday speculations. And one need not be born again to experience a frisson of apocalyptic concern. Also enjoying a new spasm of popularity is...
French police have banned the sale of a hit record called Go for It Saddam, a paean to the Iraqi dictator. Recorded in Arabic by Algerian singer Mohamed Mazouni, the song is popular with France's North African youth. The single, which was available in both audio- and videocassette versions...
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. Devotees waited 17 years for the author to outdo his apocalyptic Gravity's Rainbow (1973). What they got instead was a kinder, gentler Pynchon. This saga of wilting '60s flower children, circa 1984, on the lam from federal narcs, displays much of the author's old...
The circuits of the historical imagination have been overloaded anyway. The end of the cold war, the "peace dividend," even the "end of history," as announced by one thinker -- all these came tumbling by chaotically, and then immediately darker themes set in: recession and the apocalyptic clouds in the gulf...