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...poor kids are far more terrified of the media than they were of Baily). The film also makes good use of its claustrophobic setting--the interior of a stuffy old natural history museum. A dinosaur skeleton occupies a central position throughout the movie, lending an eerie atmosphere of impending doom to the events Gavras films through its bare ribs. Especially compelling are the images of television screens broadcasting garishly amid the flotsam and jetsam of American history, which consist primarily of extinct or endangered animals and routed indigenous peoples...
Phelps and 11 of his church's 213 members visited the Boston area this weekend bearings signs reading "Thank God for AIDS" and "Fags Doom Nations." The group has gained national media attention for picketing the funerals of AIDS victims...
...recall the ozone debate, chemical companies proclaimed very similar forecasts of doom when the number of ozone-depleting materials produced by each country was cut. Yet we haven't seen any reports that the U.S. economy has greatly suffered as a result of the reforms. Similarly, we should be able to accomplish these reductions without feeling the pinch. And if we do feel a little pinch, then an aggressive media campaign could make the public think it was worth the effort. After all, recycling, unheard of a few decades ago, has become a routine part of life in many places...
...goals from Yale's Meg Sullivan spelled doom for the Crimson (4-2-1, 1-1-0 Ivy), the last one coming four minutes into the overtime period...
Among the reclaimed "best parts" are such doodles of doom as, "For practically everybody, the end of the world can't come soon enough" and "Being alive is a crock..." Having a novelist's free hand to write what you will does not mean you are entitled to a free ride. Vonnegut, soon to be 75, struggled too long for his success to be naive on that point. But in a sorrowful preface he says Timequake is his last novel and asks readers to "have pity...