Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Raunch and sex can save most works from obscurity--but should they fail, they doom a piece to the purgatory of sleaze. Eroticism is a province of the mind; if the artist doesn't stylize his sexual themes so that they involve more than the gonads, he (or she) sinks to vulgarity...
...office in the White House and clean underwear." But when the President goes to the Debate of His Life and keeps looking at his watch as if he had a much more important engagement elsewhere, there is no way for his minions not to lose heart. Trickle-down doom is inevitable when the candidate is physically present at the debates but is already mentally off at the Bush Library in Texas or on the links in Kennebunkport...
...teaching fellows, dressed as ninjas, saluted Nagy with swords and proceeded to beat an egg-shaped cake to a pulp. Students said the ninjas referred to "Sword of Doom," a movie shown for the class, and the egg referred to a lecture given earlier in the term...
...wonder that, even now, most of humankind could still not believe that this modest asteroid was the instrument of doom. Or, as the Chrislamic Fundamentalists were calling it, "the Hammer...
...inappropriate a phrase, while all the humans around him were in a state of shock. There were some compensations in being a Legal Person (Nonhuman). Though David could not know love, neither could he know fear. He would continue to think logically, even to the edge of doom...