Word: cataclysmal
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...most hockey games, two goals in the final minutes of play would result in a cataclysm of some sort. But the Crimson is not just any hockey team...
...Prince of Egypt recalls familiar cartoon motifs. Like The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and The Lion King (and for that matter, Gone With the Wind, Star Wars, Forrest Gump and Hamlet), this is a coming-of-age story, a tale of youth pressed into troubled maturity during a national cataclysm. As for the film's basic plot--a bright misfit goes undercover to save his people from foreign domination--it's pure Mulan. You'll also find echoes of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 essay in panoramic kitsch, The Ten Commandments (including the climactic Red Sea parting), and its Oscar-laden...
...find that shows like The Rat Patrol and Tony Orlando and Dawn had ratings of about 20. Thus the breadth of Seinfeld's audience is not at all exceptional. By this measure, it would be as logical to treat the end of Night Court as a cultural cataclysm...
...sought refuge in a hospital. When the Tutsi-majority Rwandan Patriotic Front seized power in July 1994, he chose not to flee. Both decisions nearly cost him his life. Even today, a uniformed armed guard escorts him everywhere. Bizimana has tried to come to terms with the cataclysm, but there are no easy answers. "We have to ask ourselves, What provoked people to start thinking of themselves as threatened by their neighbors to the extent of trying to annihilate them...
Beyond this, however, campus activists have their argument in a tangle. They call for activism for the sake of activism without taking the time to realize that for the time being, the world is free of cataclysm. Perhaps the best proof that there are no world-changing issues to fight for or against is that would-be activists spend their time attacking the apathetics and not acting...