Word: mushrooming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jerry responded immediately with a T.V. ad depicting a mushroom cloud while a child says. "I want to go on living." Its final lines state. "Vote for your life. Elect Jerry Brown to the U.S. Senate...
...marvelous "mushroom" vases of Finland's Tapio Wirkkala (1946-47) are another example of this. Wirkkala's artistic craft ennobles ordinary glass. It turns an industrial material into a living one. The same is true of Denmark's Finn Juhl's famous armchair of 1945 and, for that matter, all Danish-modern wood furniture. The sensuous, sculptural shapes seem to flow into one organic unit...
...many Soviet viewers, the program provided the first real glimpse of the horrors of nuclear war. Said a schoolboy of 14 who had seen pictures of mushroom clouds but not of an A-bomb's effects on the ground: "I never imagined that nuclear bombs could be so destructive...
...makes this configuration: nuclear bombs preside, in a dark, speculative way, over the human imagination of war. Nuclear is to conventional war what the monotheism of the avenging God was to the old amiably human and relatively harmless idolatries of polytheism. The wrath of God becomes the dread mushroom and megadeath and firestorm-totality, cessation. It is not relative, like the old wars, but absolute, the utter blank of extinction. Nuclear war sits in the mind like the lurid medieval vision of hell: horrible-and yet, well, hypothetical...
...thousands are dying. Survivors crawl from wrecked homes to see a more ordinary terror beginning. The only illumination is from house fires; the power is out. Ruptured gas lines explode, setting new blazes, and the flames spread unchecked. Rising overhead now is the catastrophe's explanation: a dark mushroom cloud, already eight miles high...