Word: dooms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hungry Charley's restaurant, on the verge of becoming the second Harvard Square restaurant to close within two months, will institute new policies next week in a last-ditch effort to avoid financial doom...
ORSON WELLES CINEMA Cinema I: WED-FRI: Harakiri (Kobayashi) 4:15, 7:20, 9:45. SAT-SUN: Sword of Doom (Okomoto) 4:15, 7:20, 9:45. Cinema II: WED-following TUES: Jane Eyre, 5:50, 9:30. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn...
...expect that nearly all of the "growing thousands" are awaiting the Second Coming not with a sense of impending doom but of glad anticipation...
...INEVITABLE DOOM of American musical life has been discussed with morbid relish by almost everyone concerned for years now. Composers, still suffering from the complications of the turn-of-the century stylistic crisis, lament the unwillingness of audience and orchestras to accept unfamiliar music. Conductors skillfully transfer the blame from orchestras to players, whose reticence and unionization undermine effective rehearsal of the unknown; but they, too, indict reactionary audiences and patrons. Professional players are often delightfully unaffected in their views-remarks like "I'd rather be at home driving splints under my fingernails" are a typical response to the rehearsal...
...Fellini finds the decay exhilarating and embraces impending doom beneath the surface. In the final sequence a troop of goggled motorcyclists roar through the rubbish of Rome on a joyride, anonymous heralds of catastrophe. Fellini whirls his camera through the city on one last dazzling tour before speeding off, after the cyclists, out of the cuts into the darkness, greeting the apocalypse with an empty grin...