Word: postnuclear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Raymond Rosenthal) that makes them so entertaining. That and the basic quality of Levi's mind, skeptical but sympathetic, a bit melancholy but witty; one feels that he is a friend. About all those beetles, Levi speculates that they may be the creatures destined to take over the postnuclear world. "Many millions of years will have to pass," he writes, "before a beetle particularly loved by God . . . will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light." It is a prospect that...
...street in his honor. But these days would dapper Duke Ellington feel at ease taking the A train 2 1/2 miles north from midtown Manhattan to black Harlem? Not if he believed the vision this New York City community conjures up in the minds of apprehensive whites: a postnuclear landscape of poverty and blight, where crack dealers plan gang wars in cratered tenements. To most Manhattanites from the wealthy southern part of the island, Harlem hardly exists, except as an old, obscure head wound -- the beast in the attic, a maximum-security prison for the American Dream's unruly losers...
...place does have crack houses, and whole blocks look postnuclear, but black Harlem is still a great place to visit. Beautiful old homes stand spiffily on Strivers' Row, the Apollo Theater percolates with Amateur Night every Wednesday, and churches like Abyssinian Baptist can renew the spirit of even the most jaded tourist...
...what could have been just another tabloid horror story. And Schoelen is the most appealing teen in recent movies. But the triumph is O'Quinn's. With his a- mite-too-wide smile, unctuous pieties and neatly calibrated spasms of rage, he creates a paradigm head of the postnuclear family: an evangelist of father love and blood lust...
...like fakey props from 1950s science-fiction films. Burton's saw-toothed aluminum chair (1980-81) seems to be a throne awaiting a space-age dictator, Dune-style. Bruce Tomb's wood-and-granite propane cookstove (1983-84) seems at once oddly futuristic and jerry-built--in other words, postnuclear...