Word: holocaustal
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...been President when Nazi Germany was waging war on England and France: Nothing. Adolf Hitler, he insists, was somewhat misunderstood. The Nazis only wanted to move east into Russia and Eastern Europe--which posed no threat to U.S. interests--until we got them all riled up. The Holocaust? A bad thing, certainly, but not the kind of problem that should drag a nation into...
...referring to Periplaneta americana, the common American cockroach, ascribed by urban legend with the ability to withstand a nuclear holocaust. Thanks to the fertile breeding grounds of Eliot and Lowell Houses in particular, a healthy population would undoubtedly survive amid the ruins of Harvard...
...extremely disturbing that we should be entertaining the idea of forgetting about Cambodian genocide [WORLD, Aug. 16]. Have we so soon forgotten the lesson taught us by Hitler's Holocaust? The one lesson taught by that insane carnage is never to forget. If we allow the memory of such a horrific occurrence in Cambodia to fade from global memory, then there is a chance that it will happen again. Almost 2 million people were brutally slaughtered, but we're no closer to knowing why. The only man who could have told us easily, Pol Pot, died in 1998. The world...
...WHAT IT'S ABOUT] Novel about a Holocaust survivor seeking revenge on the man who killed his family...
...filler: archival material on the witch legend, interviews with local police officers and friends of the missing students, all tied together by a suitably questing narrator. The trope is familiar enough, both from that oxymoronic phrase "reality TV" and from fake-umentary murder movies, such as the 1979 Cannibal Holocaust and the current Drop Dead Gorgeous. The Last Broadcast, a slick thriller assembled on a desktop computer in 1997 for--get this--$900, mixes interviews and "found footage" in its story of a cable-TV crew that goes into New Jersey's Pine Barrens in search of a legendary monster...