Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nothing else, the sense of crisis and impending doom that Asahara cultivated has kept his followers in his thrall. He always sits one level higher than his devotees, and they have to bow and kiss his toe. A follower recalled, "When he found that I was carrying a picture of an Indian saint, he went berserk and said I should not respect anyone but him." In this way, perhaps Asahara's early life was a foreshadowing of what would come later. "When I look at the way Aum operates," a onetime classmate in Kumamoto said, "I think Matsumoto is trying...
Make no qualms about it--Harvard students need mindless video games. Doom is mindless. Raiden is mindless. Pinball is mindless. Club Dead requires thought. This is a bad thing...
...depths of history's latrine, and that our only chance for salvation is to heed the call of a few enlightened observers with the foresight to smell what lies before us. The truth is that half the people you meet are "enlightened observers," and that these prophecies of moral doom are based on a major logical fallacy...
Charles C. Savage tells us such a tale of imminent doom in his article "A Society Unraveling in Film" (signed piece, Feb. 11, 1995). Mr. Savage describes for us the now-legendary scene from Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs in which "Mr. Blonde" brutally tortures a kidnapped police officer to the beat of a catchy tune. This serves as evidence for the "decivilizing," "lifestyle of chaos" and "shattering of our cultural barometer" that lie before us. Let's suppose that Savage is correct that we as a society are losing our sense of right and wrong. If that were...
...twilight or the dark; Sellars and set designer George Typsin have chosen to let the sun shine in. Instead of a vaguely medieval setting, the scene is a huge beach house constantly irradiated by the sunlight that glints off the ocean's waves. The gloom is gone, but the doom remains. To underscore the sickness of King Arkel's family, hospital beds have been placed in nearly every room...