Word: holocaust
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...father becomes his son, then takes the youngster's place in his playground-a lower circle in Dante's hell. A fully automated house continues to function with mechanical mindlessness long after its inhabitants have been incinerated in a nuclear holocaust. An electrical robot grandmother does more than bake her grandchildren's favorite pies; she is a model of uncritical love. When the children grow old, she is on standby, ready for their second childhoods. An uninhabited planet resists earthlings who have come to settle...
...generally accepted but unwritten rule" forbids scientists to carry out investigations on any subject they wish. The inquisitions are over. If films on "experiments conducted on human subjects in Nazi Germany" had been shown in the 1930s, perhaps world opinion would have been strong enough to prevent the Holocaust which we now can see in films--50 years too late. The "standard of decency" in science is Truth...
...subject and showcases three splendid performances: Blythe Banner as the willowy, resilient Lillian Meechum; Michael O'Keefe as 18-year-old Ben, his father's cross and joy; and, above all, Robert Duvall as the raging Bull-sacred monster, gung-ho dinosaur, one-man nuclear-family holocaust-who can do everything except express what he feels for the people he loves...
...America. In turn, the Soviet capability to destroy U.S. cities has been seen as deterring Washington from attacking the U.S.S.R. Because such a situation in effect holds hostage the population centers of both superpowers, theorists call the strategy a "balance of terror" and have credited it with preventing nuclear holocaust...
Today's survivalists may give some passing thought to the possibility of a natural disaster or a nuclear holocaust, but their gloomiest forebodings are fiscal. Says former Aerospace Worker Bill Kerbaugh, 50, who now operates a survivalist nutrition center in Sonora, Calif.: "I believe there is going to be a total collapse of the economy in this country, and it will provoke a worldwide depression." According to the survivalist scenario, those feckless optimists who are trapped in the nation's blighted cities will perish. The sage few who have gone back to the land-or at least...