Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tidbit learned in the days after the shooting, the opportunistic pundits have played their hands to maximum advantage, trying to offer the most insightful explanation for the events in Colorado. When it was revealed that the killers listened to the music of Marilyn Manson and played the game Doom, the pundits argued that Goth rock music and graphic video games ought to be restricted because they insight violence. Psychologists have taken to the airwaves to talk about the effect of TV violence on youth...
Even President Clinton has gotten into the act, proposing new general restrictions on fertilizer purchases, after it was learned that the killers made homemade pipe bombs. Never mind the plentiful cases where Marilyn Manson, Doom and fertilizer have not been accessories to violence; generalizations and extrapolations from the particular circumstances in Littleton have become the order...
...sophisticated the technology or how noble the cause. But since the Gulf War, TV audiences have been conditioned to expect military conflict to be a "surgical" process, in which the bad guys are zapped off video screens at the push of a button. As in a game of Doom, the videos shown during NATO media briefings give no sense of the shattered bones and ripped flesh that follow when the bomb camera image turns to fuzz. And not surprisingly, the alliance prefers not to show any footage from the bombs that may have strayed from their targets...
...beginning of the show may seem promising to most but foretells ultimate doom to us hard-core Tommy connoisseurs. A crowd of actors wearing "interpretational" black costumes of various sorts--most of the men are in leather or vinyl pants, and one tall woman wears her hair in disgustingly cute pigtails--belt out the dates and settings of scenes in incomprehensible British accents. They go on to mimic war planes, perform a bad faux jitterbug that's not even in Townshend's original score and basically stand around looking useless for irritatingly long periods of time...
Siegel agreed with Buell, adding that Harvard's tenure program is plagued by "structural programs" which virtually doom the hope of tenure for junior Faculty in the field of English...