Word: gomorrahism
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...show the languorous natives how to make motion pictures-and money. Among the Barbarians. Producing the screen version of A Raisin in the Sun for Columbia Pictures. Susskind makes it clear to all Hollywood that he is an East Coast messiah. Tossing off remarks about filmland's Gomorrah atmosphere, its chronic fearfulness. its tendency "to run with the tide." he sits in self-imposed isolation at one end of the long table in Columbia's executive dining room and baits the mighty. At a recent lunch, he noted in a loud, salad-wilting voice that Eddie Fisher would...
...Frank Sinatra. Scarcely out of college, Kingston's Nick Reynolds, Dave Guard and Bob Shane are making some $10,000 a week, can pick up a six-day fee of $25,000 any time they can conquer their distaste for Las Vegas-"we prefer a less Sodom-and-Gomorrah-type scene...
...from ancient submerged towns such as Epidauros, which disappeared in a tidal wave off Yugoslavia in A.D. 365. Last week a Methodist minister and sometime oceanographer from Kansas City donned an Aqua-Lung and plunged into the Dead Sea-avowedly in search of the lost cities of Sodom and Gomorrah...
Further, "the attention of modern man familiar with the discoveries of nuclear physics must be struck by the Biblical description of Sodom and Gomorrah." The Soviet co-authors "transcribed" the Biblical passage into modern language and decided that the columns of smoke, the fire and brimstone that destroyed the cities resulted from the blast "caused by the cosmonauts, who, before takeoff, arranged to blow up dumps of extra nuclear fuel after first warning the surrounding inhabitants" to flee. Those who looked back (e.g., Lot's wife) "were blinded and perished." A little nervously, the Literary Gazette prefaced this saucer...
...Dead Sea, customers will float in glass-bottom boats and look down upon Sodom and Gomorrah. A dark journey through the thoracic cavity of Jonah's whale will end up in a wild slide down the monster's tongue. Camels will clunk along through Egypt's Valley of the Kings, taking clients to the pyramids. Donkeys will bear the weight of multitudes from Nazareth to Jerusalem...