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Bong and his team designed the spaceship, the Drakkar, to feel both futuristic and oppressively bureaucratic, like a deep-space factory where human life is mechanized and survival is optimized at the cost of individuality.

The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968 cast an oppressively long shadow in Los Angeles.

The reform would levy a new, higher penalty of $200 per pay period on employers that act “maliciously, fraudulently or oppressively” in violating labor laws.

"The problem lies firmly with the gimmicky, oppressively dour staging, which consistently works against all of them."

It is a tantalizing idea, a seeming off-ramp from the oppressively bleak reality of the near future, which may well include a seriously overheated planet where life in some places becomes unsustainable levels.