Word: dooming
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...career, is in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which finished shooting last February. She worked without a break for 76 days, some of the time with a cracked rib, playing a sexually compulsive schoolteacher who travels from affair to affair in Manhattan singles bars and finally to her doom...
Nixon screamed a lot in his first year of life, and his "oral fixation" later produced enthusiasm for debating and a compulsion to talk on dates. The President-to-be suffered an "anal fixation" too. The evidence cited for this-e.g., his scatological remarks-would doom every G.I. and fraternity man. With both fixations at work, Abrahamsen solemnly concludes, "there could be tittle or no emotional growth...
Zinder has reason for worry. But he and other scientists should find reassurance in the experience of Cambridge. There, citizens patiently ignored political demagoguery, perceived the false notes in the voices of doom, mastered the complex issues and then cast their votes for the continuation-with reasonable restraints-of free scientific inquiry. Congress should do no less...
John destroys himself through self-indulgence: drugs, liquor and thrill-seeking stunts. As he vainly struggles to find himself and happiness with Esther, the audience knows doom is inevitable. John goes from riding a motorcycle on stage to shooting at helicopters, all to find what a poor, prairie boy thinks is happiness. Esther manages to get him away from the drugs for a while but he dies like James Dean, in a rolled-over sports car on a lonely highway...
...death rumbling across the prairie. Production designer Michael Haller's re-creation of a Pampa dust-storm stunningly conveys the awesome power that often terrorized the dust bowl's inhabitants. When Woody sings in "The Great Dust Storm," "We thought it was our judgment, we thought it was our doom," it's easy to understand...