Word: holocaust
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...scientific progress unalloyed by humanism, in its parody of man's attraction to death over life, in its mockery of religious faith, "the good life," and beauty and truth alike, Zardoz digs away at most of our rationalizations for living. As an alternative, it offers death: the first pastel holocaust I've seen on the screen. It is, as they say, worth the price of admission alone...
Dapper in his modish suit, his silver hair carefully coiffed, Garner Ted Armstrong looked out from the television screen last week and talked to his nationwide audience about their eyes liquefying, their bodies vaporizing and their cities vanishing in a nuclear holocaust. The "end times," he warned, were near. Garner Ted and his father, Herbert W. Armstrong, are the watchful guardians of Pasadena's Worldwide Church of God, a clannish, bizarre, 40-year-old sect (TIME, May 15, 1972) that has made the end times something of a stock in trade. Now it appears that Founder Herbert and Heir...
...Soviet technology is catching up. The Soviet Union's recent development of a new line of intercontinental missiles, which should be deployed within the next few months, shows that they are just as reluctant to put an end to the threat of nuclear holocaust...
...enhanced R. and D. program." The budget, the first to be drawn up under his supervision, calls for money to begin research into new missiles, a new submarine and new technology that will enable the nation to fight a limited nuclear war ?something less than the all-out holocaust of reciprocal annihilation on which U.S. nuclear strategy has been based for 25 years...
...good reason occurred three years after his debut, when Wright was awarded a Pulitzer Prize; the winning cartoon showed two survivors of a nuclear holocaust in a bomb-pocked landscape and was captioned: "You mean you were blurring?" Since then, Wright has abandoned the pencil-and-charcoal effects favored by Mauldin and Herblock. He has developed his own pen-and-ink style, in which faces and forms are distorted past realistic limits. His decisive lines and elongated figures are reminiscent of the technique of British Caricaturist Ronald Searle. Wright's characters, with their ballooning eyeballs, pinprick pupils and ramshackle...