Word: nightmarish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past. The "ideal cities" of Leonardo da Vinci or Etienne-Louis Boullée, although devoid of people, were at least images of fantastic beauty. The modern future, as imagined by Antonio Sant Elia in 1914, Ludwig Hilberseimer in 1928 and Le Corbusier in 1934, has a nightmarish, totalitarian quality, akin to George Orwell's 1984 foreboding of a boot in the face. It seems incredible that many of the most talented and renowned designers in the Aspen tent had once believed in and fought for these visions...
...pattern started early Rains stretched the Crimson's league-opening road trip to Princeton and Navy into a nightmarish marathon busride from Cambridge to Princeton to Annapolis to Princeton and finally back home. The result sixteen hours on a bus, a rain-forced tie with Navy and a loss to a rested Princeton squad...
...great moments, there are just as many disappointing ones. The cheap shots at trendy people and issues are just plain annoying--sure. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are nightmarish, but do they belong in the same litany of the horrifying as Vietnam and Hitler's diaries? Much of the material is tired and overdone--comments like "and they wanted us to grow up to like the characters on situation comedies," and "I just hated the downward mobility of the hippies" are just a little too convenient...
WHEN SIX MILLION JEWS burned in the ovens of Naz: concentration camps during World War II, they left their ancestors and fellow survivors with a nightmarish and burdensome legacy--guilt. However irrational the assumption, many Jews who emerged from the death camps cannot help wondering just how they managed to survive. The unfortunate result is a generation of survivors so immersed in self-reproach and misery that they torture themselves and their loved ones...
When the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the close of World War II, close to 1000 Japanese Americans were among those who lived to relate firsthand their memories of those nightmarish explosions...