Word: armageddon
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...real issues: the use of military power to fight insurgent forces and the vision of the U.S. as a superstud nation beset by terrorists abroad and liberal actors at home. It pulls off this brassy trope in the guise of an action movie in the Jerry Bruckheimer mode. Imagine Armageddon starring Pinocchio...
...junk in the trunk—is one that will rage on until the two are starring in modern retellings of Out to Sea. Their stars have alternately shone and dimmed, based largely on whether their last hit was a Bourne Supremacy or an All the Pretty Horses, an Armageddon or a Paycheck. But regardless of their individual successes, it’s difficult to discuss one without mentioning the other. The two will forever be linked in the public consciousness, emblazoned as two iconic youngsters gripping a pair of Oscars and each other...
...negotiation or truce" with the Shi'ite rebels. As the battle unfolded amid the dusty vastness of the city's Valley of Peace cemetery adjacent to the shrine and U.S. Marines engaged in a tomb-to-tomb fight with black-clad Mahdi fighters, all the elements of Armageddon seemed to be converging on the place...
...always confident about his fate. Clinton professes not to have thought about his own funeral yet--whether he wants the riderless horse, the pomp of the National Cathedral--but he must be wondering whether he will rate the same outpouring of tears and encomiums as Reagan, whether his personal Armageddon will ever be resolved and his reputation restored or whether, instead of a placid eternal flame at his grave, he'll have to make do with occasional, torrid blasts of heat lightning...
...season we'll see "Revelations," a spooky looking eight-episode "limited series" about the end times that will try to ride the "Left Behind" apocalyptic craze - although in what may be a slightly tone-deaf way. The series focuses on characters who are working feverishly to head off Armageddon, which is a weird way to capitalize on the millennialism that fuels "Left Behind" and "The Passion of the Christ"; for true believers, after all, the end of the world - at least, the return of Jesus and the establishment of His kingdom - is a good thing. But hey, there...