Word: direness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shrier takes the doctor by the Hippocratic horns--we never, ever lose the conception that the individual on stage has offered a waiting room-full of somber patients dire diagnoses that can only be delivered behind closed doors and thick desk. His tone borders on that of the tirelessly tireless banner-holders of American Progress: those great 50s sci-fi scientists intoning the mysteries of the future today. It's an admirable feat of dedicated characterization, and Shrier is here nothing if not consistent...
Voodoo becomes one facet of a complex family dynamic that Lemmons paints with a startling accuracy. Roz uses it to justify her tight hold over her children, even confining them to the house when faced with a dire prophecy. Mozelle, tending to her wounds after the death of her three husbands, considers herself cursed...
...semantics. What would normally be considered "inventory" became "stockpiles." A "sect" became a "cult." Since the documentary is itself a form of the media, it shows a great deal of interest in the manipulation and withholding of this information. "God help us, we want the press" even became a dire plea by the Branch Davidians...
...industrial development, energy use is soaring and so is the output of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Most scientists believe this will cause a 2[degrees]F-to-6[degrees]F rise in the next century. If the earth does heat up this fast, the consequences will be dire. Coastal areas will be inundated as the seas expand; shifting weather patterns will cause floods and droughts and disrupt agriculture; tropical diseases will migrate to previously temperate zones. These are dangers that Clinton, after plunging into the debate's ecological wonkery, can clearly envision. "I am convinced the science...
...Southern Gothic imagination, tenderness and terror are first cousins destined to marry. With scary assurance, novice writer-director Kasi Lemmons invades Faulkner-McCullers territory and makes it her own. There are a few visual and character cliches, and we wish that, just once in movies, a fortune teller's dire prophecy would not automatically come true. But the folks here believe in its power, and they compel the viewer to abandon skepticism, to hide with Eve in the Batiste closet, where skeletons whisper vengeance...