Word: ozarks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...held placards reading THE END IS NEAR, and they scrutinize the Dow Jones average more carefully than the Good Book. But just as surely as the doomsayers of old, perhaps a million or more Americans foresee the imminent collapse of Western civilization. Clustered mostly in California, Utah and the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, they are busily preparing to face the apocalypse and, above all, to survive it by providing themselves with sufficient food, fuel, shelter and weapons. Their efforts have given rise to a flourishing survival industry, specializing in everything from newsletters and real estate to two-year food packs...
Among those who provide percussive laughter, note well Aggy's Ozark sister Sarah (Sloane Shelton). Some gratuitous violence mars Passione, but the chances are that Innaurato's play, now at off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons Theater, will prove to be a long-term boxoffice hit. -T.E.K...