Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their bodies appear in stark relief against the shade inside the restaurant, strangely lifeless. The startling image, with its oddly posed figures, echoes the Surrealist attempts to defamiliarize the human body and confuse the boundary between shadow and reality. But, in juxtaposing images of plenty and those of descending doom, "Los Agachados" also resonates with ancient Indian ideas about the continuity, coexistence and interdependence of life and death...
...sort of chronic credibility: They have been prominent in every century. The world would be paradise indeed if they visited only at each turning of a thousand years. But in the centuries since the first millennium, zealous, punitive preachers have endlessly invoked the Four, backing up their threats of doom with Revelation...
Nevertheless, the three are such appealing actors that their less than stellar performances don't doom the movie...
GLOBAL-WARMING SCENARIOS ARE MOSTLY GLOOM and doom. As humans burn more fossil fuels, more carbon dioxide (CO2) enters the atmosphere. CO2 traps the sun's heat, causing a warmer climate, rising sea levels and drastic changes in weather. The one bright spot seemed to be that because plants "breathe" CO2, they might be expected to thrive...
...radar image of the storm. At first it was even difficult to be frightened. I had never been through a hurricane before, and I had no idea what was about to happen. We watched with a sense of imminent doom as Andrew blasted toward Miami at a clip of 17 miles per hour...