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An unscientific mind, noting the tendency of relief aid to gravitate toward electorally rich states, might even conclude that the gods of mayhem conspire with incumbents to provide calamitous occasions for the demonstration of political compassion.
I'll try not to eviscerate the laughably dour eXistenZ , a virtual-reality guessing game of a thriller in which David Cronenberg, evidently licking his wounds over the calamitous receptions of Crash (1996), M. Butterfly (1993), and Naked Lunch (1991), goes back to the terrain he once profitably mined in Scanners (1981) and Videodrome (1983).
Press, contends that it was Schulz's "calamitous artistic misjudgment" that allowed Snoopy and cuteness to overwhelm the "left-field" magic that characterized the early strip.
In London, the Times, which has opposed Pinochet's arrest, criticized the British government for rejecting "the best way of settling this calamitous affair, allowing General Pinochet to fly home on Chile's waiting jet" and, instead, permitting the court decision in his favor to go to appeal.
The collapse of Microsoft would not be quite as calamitous as a nuclear war.