Word: totalitarianism
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...Individual ethics cause many of society's burdens," Mayr says. "But there is a danger where community ethics leads to totalitarian states. There must be a balance...
Weiner's witty script plays out the drama of this totalitarian nightmare state in a cheesy brothel/dance hall. "The Pleasure Quarters" is the home of the "only star in the Galaxy," an annoying James Cagney sound-alike named Vic Voom (Steven Schardt). His nightly dance numbers feature a relentlessly jolly chorus line of five busty women and an idiot-savant break-dancer named Timmy...
Young Al wrote to his father that the U.S. military was "the best example...of a fascist, totalitarian regime." Moreover, he accused the American government of "creating--and if not creating, energetically, supporting--fascist, totalitarian regimes in the name of fighting totalitarianism...
Vice President Al Gore dismissed as a "college kid's silly language" a letter he wrote while a Harvard undergrad claiming the U.S. Army promoted "fascist, totalitarian regimes. " That letter and others -- written to his father, former Sen. Albert Gore, Sr., and disclosed this week in The New Yorker -- included inflammatory passages, such as: "We do have inveterate antipathy for Communism -- or paranoia as I like to put it. My own belief is that this form of psychological ailment -- in this case a national madness -- leads the victim to actually create the thing which is feared the most. It strikes...
...totalitarian, exploitative horror show didn't quite materialize. Over the three days, there was some chaos, but the fans got along, remaining friendly and happy. Huge mosh pits formed in which audience members danced and slammed into each other in pools of mud. The music was good, and most people didn't seem to let the involvement of Haagen-Dazs ruin it for them. In the movie world, the sequel tends to earn about 60% of what the original does. Less than a cultural milestone but more than a concert, Woodstock '94 was the typical sequel -- calculated, but about...