Word: holocaust
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...know Pasquale after its sweep of the camp. Because we know Pasquale after its sweep of the camp. Because we know Pasquale and are aware that his arrival in the camps hinged on a series of accidents, his look of terror and disbelief forces us to view the holocaust afresh. After thirty years of cultural bombardment by images of Nazi atrocities, that a director should be able to make even the hardened viewer consider their enormity, as if for the first time, is a remarkable achievement...
...found M.I.T.'s once-in-a-million-years odds against a nuclear power plant holocaust [Dec. 8] comforting-until I realized that a million years also includes tomorrow...
Horror, revulsion, panic overwhelm everyone who witnesses the climax of Jaws. Yet people have paid more than $150 million for the experience. Why? Why in a world menaced by drug epidemics, official corruption, political assassination, terrorist armies, atomic holocaust and pay toilets do human beings feel a longing to be scared out of their skins? What is this perverse allure of the horrible that in all ages and nations has made men sit at the feet of the taleteller who can summon adrenalin with shadow dangers...
Hindenburg's destruction. This is rather artfully managed through a blending of newsreel footage and well-matched black-and-white fictional material showing what happened to the movie's characters during the holocaust. Again, however, technique not drama holds...
...Western politicians-such as British Minister of Overseas Development Reg Prentice-describe them as a "time bomb for the human race." There are even exaggerated fears that radical poor nations, after acquiring nuclear explosives, might try to blackmail rich nations into giving up their wealth by threatening a nuclear holocaust. A more plausible danger is that the conflict could destroy the international economic system on which the stability of much of the world is based...