Word: dooming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trench coats, neon lights, rain-washed streets. And a man of honor in a world of thieves. French Writer-Director Jean-Pierre Melville's drama of a gambler down on his luck took 27 years to arrive in the U.S.; it is a classic example of the dark, doom-dripping genre known as film noir...
...Hagarty), now a computer operator, maintain their love for one another despite adversity. Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves and several others from the original provide the pilots and ground control technicians necessary to foul up the flight and embody running jokes. But placed in the nebulous future, this year's doom-bent flight takes places aboard a computer-controlled lunar shuttle, with a bow to 2001: A Space Odyssey...
...major events of Lowell's life--his imprisonment for conscientious objection, his routine hospitalizations and separations from lovers, his feelings of doom in reaction to the deaths of T.S. Eliot, Randall Jarell, John Berryman, and other friends, his opposition to the Vietnam War--are interesting but tangential to Hamilton's defense of Lowell's place in modern poetry. In the end, questions such as insanity and its relationship to love and genius are left unanswered. Hamilton simply leaves us with a wealth of well-presented source material to use in thinking about these questions. It is an important gift...
...course, the doom-mongering ideologue that he is, Helms actually expects to lose a lot of the battles he fights. But the New Right's leading light may be in more serious trouble than he realizes, not in the Senate but where the votes really count, back home in North Carolina. Helms has recently suffered his worst setback in years, as all the candidates he suported in congressional elections were defeated--despite extensive financial and personal help. As a result, serious questions have been raised about Helms own domination nation of North Carolina, and his political future seems very cloudy...
...cynical, but it hardly qualifies as "good journalism." Beyond that, I fear that the Crimson's attitude may destroy any chance for effective student leadership on this campus. The Crimson should not be adding to campus apathy, nor be helping to create a self-fulfilling prophecy of doom. To do no would be counter-productive, and not in keeping with the Crimson's tradition of excellence. Michael Flamm...