Word: doomsdayers
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...scene in Harris County's Southbend subdivision is eerie, like something out of a doomsday movie. Once busy streets with names like South Autumn Drive and South Valley Lane are largely still and deserted. Houses are boarded up. There are few signs of life in this blue-collar neighborhood 18 miles south of downtown Houston, where 2,800 people once thrived...
...years later, with nuclear weapons still capable of destroying the world many times over -- not a word about the coming apocalypse. The fever has passed. But not the propensity for fever. Another day, another fever. With nuclear apocalypse now out of fashion, we have eco-catastrophe, a doomsday of pollution, overpopulation and resource depletion...
ARMS CONTROL: The Doomsday Clock Ticks...
...Jurassic Park, Hollywood apparently has a dinosaur-size hit. Now the town thinks it smells a dog. Last Action Hero, the Arnold Schwarzenegger adventure opening this week, has spurred doomsday rumors because of its ballistic budget (estimates run up to $120 million), a reputedly disastrous sneak preview last month, and the subsequent three-day shooting of a new sequence...
Highly melodic despite all its doomsday undertones, Earth and Sun and Moon remains infectiously listenable. This is Mad Max music you can dance to. Several cuts even hold out a flicker of hope. Bushfire predicts a "new day/ It's larger than life, darker than death/ We're gonna move those mountains aside." And in Now or Never Land, Midnight Oil invites the listener to "dream a South Pacific dream of now or never land/ Suitcase full of good ! ideas/ History that's filled with tears/ Kill nostalgia, xenophobic fears/ It's now or never land." It's an urgent...