If you want to find a Year Zero artefact for the trip-hop sound of the 90s, look no further than the Pop Group's 1979 debut album Y (produced by reggae veteran Dennis Bovell) and its forbidding mash-up of dub, funk, punk and free jazz, particularly the cataclysmic single She is Beyond Good And Evil.
And as an experienced Segwayer, I feel I'm the only person qualified to review the Segway, particularly in light of yesterday's cataclysmic events.
The loss of the mother can have cataclysmic consequences for other family members, particularly children.
Even a "more limited" nuclear war -- as measured in number of warheads -- would have cataclysmic results, overwhelming hospitals across Asia and requiring vast foreign assistance, particularly from the United States, to battle radioactive contamination, famine and disease, officials said.
The cataclysmic events of Sept. 11 have made that, like everything else, more difficult, particularly as stores plan that evocative holiday experience, the full-blown Christmas window display, at a time when the changes wrought by the World Trade Center attack are still evident everywhere.
"Our house is on fire and we are arguing about who is more angry!" Vivid words and phrases were used to articulate the scale of the pending disaster that readers accused the presidential hopefuls of ignoring, such as "cataclysmic", "running out of time", "threat to human life", "path towards destruction", or in one particularly memorable remark: "slow-motion apocalypse".
Most importantly, early cataclysmic predictions appear not to have come true, suggesting that these GM crops are not particularly different from conventional or hybrid crops.
The effect was cataclysmic.
Those decisions proved cataclysmic.
