Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Victoriana awaits him in a parking lot below. Each objet d'art has been produced by his richly informed subconscious. Naturally there are the classic ottomans and clawfoot sofas, the glut of silver tea sets and bridal breakfast services. But there are also treasures from the velvet underground: choice items of bondage, plush Sadean literature, punishment costumes featuring removable posterior panels. It is all only a dream, of course. But in a way, Moore reminds us, so were the Victorians, and their residue remains as solid as mahogany...
...talkers" by the general population. People slowly understand that the way the world is officially described has nothing to do with the way it really is. Meanwhile, packs of seven, eight-and nine-year-old abandoned children have run wild. They ruthlessly hunt food together and live where underground railways used to run, pathetic proofs that homemaking is reverting to something more like "cave-keeping"-that civilization is returning to original rubble...
Today Gnosticism survives as a living religion only among the Mandaean marsh dwellers of Iraq. But Robinson believes that the Gnostic world view has had a kind of underground existence throughout Western civilization, surfacing in such classics of existential despair as Albert Camus' The Stranger as well as among today's alienated youths. Says Robinson: "The Gnostics were colossal dropouts who opted for an otherworldly escape...
...instructions to all West German hospitals and private doctors on how to treat mustard-gas burns. Authorities were also alarmed when one of the defense lawyers representing the terrorists disappeared shortly before the opening of the trial. Defense Lawyer Siegfried Haag left a note saying that he was "going underground to carry out important tasks in the battle against imperialism...
Even more spectacular collapses have occurred in parts of Alabama, which is crisscrossed by underground limestone caverns...