Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Essex, chair of the Harvard AIDS Institute and one of the world's premier AIDS researchers, said "much of AIDS is still a story of gloom and doom." Essex cited the high rate of infection in Northern Thailand, where one in five adults have AIDS...
...such stories, Mack concluded that the abductions were real. Moreover, he discerned a motive behind them: the abductors, it seems, were implanting mind-to-mind messages urging better care of the planet. The aliens' apparent objective was an intergalactic breeding program combined with a brotherly warning of impending doom if the earth doesn't change its warlike and ecologically wasteful ways...
...ranger guy, however, soon proved to be a messenger of doom as he handed us a little brochure about Deer Ticks and erosion. "Also," said the Ranger, "We close the parking lot at sundown. And lock the gates." The ante had been upped, but we had more than two bucks riding on this one: SB `94 hung in the balance. "No way, Ranger," we thought to ourselves, "Your negative energy hasn't phased us. Let's hit the Dunes...
...hills in a hurry, and we faced the prospect of spending the night with lyme ticks and the Red Baron if we didn't make the parking lot in time. As dusk settled, we stumbled into the empty parking lot and sprinted to the car. The prophet-of-doom ranger was just locking up as we screeched up to the gate. He approached us and, instead of getting mad or something, he said: "Around the next bend you'll see a deer making its way across the marsh towards the Great House." We had no time to decipher his ominous...
...Lewis' was a melodramatic Dane -- an agitated youth who raced across his world of a stage as if late for a date with doom. It was a reckless, bravura turn that could sap any star's strength. In the middle of a performance toward the end of the run, Day-Lewis left the stage and did not return. The theater pages were full of rumors that he had seen his father as the ghost and was driven daft. "I have no bad feelings about my father, my father's ghost, the ghost of Hamlet, Hamlet, Shakespeare, Richard Eyre...