Word: doom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anticipated than the pairing of movie stars Jessica Lange as the desperate, delusional Blanche DuBois and Alec Baldwin as her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski, the feral hunk who rapes her in body and mind. From the moment they meet, there should be a sense of yearning and of doom, as when Jessica Tandy and Marlon Brando legendarily created the roles. Alas, there are no sparks between the current team...
...ebony Moor and his blond bride in images of stark chiaroscuro, the blackest black and the whitest white. No moral or visual gray tones here. Dark cloaked figures rush toward the Grand Canal, and pigeons scatter up into an angry sky. The spider-webbery of shadows casts doom across an innocent face. It is a canvas, of baroque silhouettes and diagonals rampant, that marries text to texture in vintage film-noir style. Othello: the postwar man who feels betrayed by his wife. Desdemona: the innocent woman brutalized by her suspicious spouse...
...them when I was awake; I listened to them when I was asleep; I bought their LP's their EP's, a three-inch CD single, their violinist's solo album, their collaborations with Eugene Chadbourne and all of the albums done by a spin-off group, Monks of Doom. I saw them in concert; I sat in the second row; I bought a t-shirt...
Needless to say, when I read early last summer that camper Van Beethoven had split up, I was crushed. The guitarist, bassist and drummer had decided to make Monks of Doom a permanent thing. And the lead singer, David Lowery, was forming a new band...
Nevertheless, some of the most persistent forecasts of doom have so far not come true, and others keep being recalled, like defective cars. So our Cassandras have to try harder. The prospect of AIDS unchecked gets more attention than the ever growing life expectancy, and gene technology suggests nefarious experiments with life itself as much as dramatic new ways of preventing disease. We have come to distrust science. The public even seems bored with space travel, although in hindsight it may prove to be, along with the computer, the most important achievement of our century...