Word: doomful
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Ronald Reagan, on the other hand, summoned us with trumpets. He peddled once again the old myths, offering himself as evidence that they were true. Reagan swept into office attacking his predecessor's "gloom and doom," telling us we could painlessly remake history and return to an earlier, idyllic time. That time, though, never existed. Reagan, like most Americans, was nurtured on the largesse of big government. He owes his careers in movies and politics to great corporation and manipulative political managers. His vision of "morning in America" was never more than our dream of a past that never...
...this musty, dusty atmosphere of doom that director Peter Sellars '80 is trying to drive away with his production of Handel's Julius Caesar. Updated, polished, and stocked chock full of yucks, in Sellar's hands this baroque warhorse becomes a close cousin of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta. Or two or three or four operettas. This production is four hours long. Granted, Handel wrote music as God meant music to be, but the theory that "Excess is best" holds only for sex and money...
...stringy, with an occasional lumpy mass that may once have been a theme or plot twist now rendered unrecognizable by incompetent writing. Sweettable is talking-head drama of the worst sort, in which portentous declamations about the feel of people's thighs, memories of blue centaurs, the lips of doom and similar psycho-symbolic claptrap gets tossed willy-nilly at a justifiably mystified audience...
...Tuesday, it must have been Paradise. Gloom and doom came into its own, donning its studded leather, ratting up its blue-black hair and condescending to strut its sinewy stuff in front of Peter Murphy, ex-lead singer of Britain's once most promising avant-garde band, Bauhaus...
...After); and sometimes on how we landed in the nuclear soup (The Atomic Cafe, The Dead-End Kids). The way these works and also comes in three brands: the Ominous Warning ("Time is running out!"), the Barely-Averted Disaster ("Whew, that was a close one!"), or Total Doom ("I told...