Word: doomsdayers
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Chen Kaige does too. After many rigorous films, many fights with the censor board, he is entitled to pull a few plot strings, to pluck a few heartstrings--to make a film that wants to be liked. And isn't an audience that was nurtured on the doomsday screeds of art-house cinema entitled to vacation in the warmth of a superior film about a boy with almost too many people to love? --By Richard Corliss
...province of Henan. The turmoil is the most extreme manifestation of a SARS paranoia fueled by a public increasingly distrustful of government propaganda and fearful that their rulers no longer have their best interests in mind. Intensifying this unease is a vigorous rumor mill that turns careless speculation into doomsday fact. "We don't know whom to trust anymore," says one peasant manning a makeshift roadblock he and his fellow villagers have set up to keep outsiders from entering his hometown. "We have to protect ourselves...
...would-be friends into siding with the U.S. Russia has already said it might consider sanctions, and China is finally losing patience with the North. Nobody welcomes the prospect of Kim touching off an Asian arms race in which countries within range of North Korean missiles, like Japan, seek doomsday weapons of their...
...young science that could one day make such creatures possible - and worries that it could reduce the planet to a lifeless "gray goo," that in the next couple of months he will convene a nanotech summit at his country residence, Highgrove House in Gloucestershire. But while Prince Charles ponders doomsday scenarios, millions of people already use the products of nanotech research every day without even knowing it. Consumers of Sunsorb brand sunscreen have nanotech to thank for that product's invisible protection against ultraviolet rays. And it's nanotech that makes Pilkington's Activ windows shed dirt in the rain...
...theater - talk stripped down till it edges incoherence. The audience needs an act of severe concentration, and perhaps a peek at the program, to figure out what's going on. But once the plot is deduced, we see that "A Number" has as many S-F twists as a doomsday thriller...