anomie (en)

lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group, which lessens social cohesion and fosters decline; popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide

antic (en)

(adjective) grotesque bizarre / characterized by clownish extravagance or absurdity / whimsically gay; frolicsome

bilious (en)

(adjective) of or indicative of a peevish ill-natured disposition, sickeningly unpleasant

Klieg light (en)

an intense carbon arc lamp especially used in filmmaking

Manichaeism (en)

an ancient religious movement that has to do with duality? "an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness"

nickelodeon (en)

(noun) an early movie theater to which admission usually cost five cents / (noun) jukebox

perestroika (en)

a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost ("openness") policy reform

supercilious (en)

(adjective) coolly and patronizingly haughty

truculent (en)

eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant