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...larger concern is with death as metaphor. As usual, DeLillo mixes black comedy with a ceremonious tone: "The enormous dark mass moved like some death ship in a Norse legend, escorted across the night by armored creatures with spiral wings." The whirly appendages belong to helicopters tracking the monster smudge over Iron City, a small industrial town and home of the College-on-the-Hill...
...nation goes imperfectly on. Teen-agers commit suicide, for reasons that baffle. The homeless sleep in our doorways or on warm-air grates. The monster deficit, which some say is the equivalent of nuclear doom, presides over the vestibule. America has been on a spending binge for years, and the arithmetic is ominous...
...Hydra of our day, a multiheaded monster whose many faces, all different, all grotesque, pop up around the globe without hint of their coming. Defined broadly, the terrorist is the perpetrator of political violence, one who, to paraphrase Clausewitz, seeks to extend war by other means. Rarely does the crime itself fulfill the terrorist's dream; it is usually designed to achieve revenge, publicity, leverage or anarchy. The year saw savage terrorists in all their guises, but 1984 also witnessed a clamorous debate over whether and how a government should strike back...
GREMLINS. What kind of monster movie is this? One that dares to turn on its own young. Joe Dante's impish summertime satire is also a fable that cautions its audience against consuming the detritus of pop culture like so much junk food...
...points up the risks of deregulation. Generally, deregulation is laudable, but it never should have been applied to banks. Deregulating banks cancels out the valid reasons for having some form of cost, safety and volume control over the money supply. Deregulation in this case will become a monster and a lighted fuse...