Word: doom
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...their bodies appear in stark relief against the shade inside the restaurant, strangely lifeless. The startling image, with its oddly posed figures, echoes the Surrealist attempts to defamiliarize the human body and confuse the boundary between shadow and reality. But, in juxtaposing images of plenty and those of descending doom, "Los Agachados" also resonates with ancient Indian ideas about the continuity, coexistence and interdependence of life and death...
...sort of chronic credibility: They have been prominent in every century. The world would be paradise indeed if they visited only at each turning of a thousand years. But in the centuries since the first millennium, zealous, punitive preachers have endlessly invoked the Four, backing up their threats of doom with Revelation...
...wonder that, even now, most of humankind could still not believe that this modest asteroid was the instrument of doom. Or, as the Chrislamic Fundamentalists were calling it, "the Hammer...
...inappropriate a phrase, while all the humans around him were in a state of shock. There were some compensations in being a Legal Person (Nonhuman). Though David could not know love, neither could he know fear. He would continue to think logically, even to the edge of doom...
Nevertheless, the three are such appealing actors that their less than stellar performances don't doom the movie...