Word: oblivion
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...gazed into the broken mirror of his life and gleaned the terrifying knowledge that he is "irredeemably mediocre." With an irascible wit and a fanged tongue, he spews out tirades of paranoia. A self-pitying child of rage and fear, he drowns his panic in alcohol. He courts oblivion in lust-the bed is his womb and his coffin. He wakes with jittery remorse to smell death's bad breath at dawn. On the self-accusing charge of having made his existence an obscenity, this anti-hero sits in a prisoner's dock watching his life pass like...
Witnessing this worldwide obduracy, writers as disparate as Naturalist Konrad Lorenz and Novelist Arthur Koestler have redefined Homo sapiens as Homo maniacus, arguing that man appears doomed by some inherent quirk to follow the dinosaur into oblivion. Among the apocalyptically minded, the only question is where Armageddon will begin. Harlem or the Hotel Majestic? The Sorbonne or the Sinai Peninsula...
...wife itchy and bitchy, his little boy unteachable and unreachable. Miserably, he wanders into a mythically peaceful and green meadow near by. There, a huge red-and-yellow ascension balloon sits waiting, like the swan boat in Lohengrin. He clambers aboard and cuts the ropes, borne free to oblivion...
...comedian," Fred Allen said, "is a man on the treadmill to oblivion." But it is the gag writer who makes him go, and in the specialized craft of making funny men seem funny, few people have larger reputations than Mel Brooks...
Barry for Dick. Rather than allow his brainwash gaffe to sink into oblivion, Romney repeatedly invoked the term, along with his older standbys. Communism and world poverty are not the nation's greatest perils, he said. "The greatest threats are from a decline in moral character, personal responsibility, family life and religion-the things on which American life are based." His speeches were mostly well received, even at the Trunk 'n' Tusk Club in Phoenix, where many Arizona elephants cannot forget his refusal to support Barry Goldwater...