Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is the type of human drama that fills the bizarre literary world of novelist John Irving. The author of the 1978 bestseller, The World According to Garp, Irving writes with a perpetual sense of impending doom--at any time some sort of garish literary vehicle similar to Claudio's fateful truck can roar by and rip away everything familiar and safe. In Garp, penises fly, ears get chomped, tongues are replaced with stitches, and death always looms. "In the world according to Garp," Irving explains, "an evening could be hilarious and the next morning could be murderous...
...commencement, prophets of doom, profits and Toyotas...
...hero's traditional nemesis Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones) is now guilty not just of killing Conan's parents and selling the boy into slavery, but of running a drug and snake cult for hippies. (At last we know where to locate Conan in time; this is the Stoned Age.) Seeking vengeance, Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) becomes, incidentally, the world's first deprogrammer. This among other muscle-bound links to contemporary life is definitely intentional. What is not is the flatness of Schwarzenegger's performance, the dullness of his odyssey. Instead of the giddy lift one sometimes...
...anemic state of students government at present does no doom chances for future success and, indeed, demonstrates the acute need for something new. But now that students have a new mechanism, it truly remains to be seen whether beginning in September they will attempt to utilize it, or whether they care...
...Simon & Schuster: "The fact is, the mass-market publishers are making things more accessible, not less. There are books in homes that never had books before." And Bantam President Wolfe believes the worst of times is actually the best of times: "I can't stand this gloom and doom. This is an exciting and growing business. There is room for all types of publishers in all types of categories." Maybe, but that room seems to be rapidly filling up with paperbacks...