It took an even bigger cataclysm to form the moon than researchers had thought, a new study suggests.
And there are moments — when the actors freeze to behold the darkening skies — when silence falls like both a shadow and a shudder at the cataclysm to come.
Back in 1931, for example, The New York Times attributed the emerging economic cataclysm to a "mood of pessimism which had been carried to grotesque extremes".
"The intent was to prevent a cataclysm, not just to create jobs," Goolsbee said.
So for years, I have thought of Dieppe itself as less a place than a cataclysm that led to other, more lasting experiences.
He cares about the popular but insupportable idea that a cataclysm is unlikely to happen simply because it has not happened before.
This play, his latest offering, places his typical antihero at the center of a cataclysm: in Lower Manhattan, to be exact, on Sept. 12, 2001.
In his latest offering, "The Mercy Seat," Mr. LaBute has placed his eternal adolescent at the center of a cataclysm: downtown Manhattan, to be exact, in the phantom shadow of the fallen World Trade Center on Sept. 12, 2001.
The resonance of Monday's deadline was particularly acute as Haitians marked the anniversary of the 2010 earthquake, a cataclysm that continues to paralyze the country.
