Word: armageddons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their theory of existence or some such thing. Just look around and you'll find them--perhaps in the course of an active summer you'll get to meet all the great ones, Clampman I and Clampman II, the Sheik, the Vanishing Desperado, the Sun Myung Moon people, Ms. Armageddon, and all the rest...
...safety of the A.P. newsmen and joined them in a round of Cokes and leftover cakes. Wrote Peter Arnett that night: "I never dreamed it would end the way it did at noon today. I thought it might have ended with a political deal like in Laos. Even an Armageddon-type battle to the finish with the city left in ruins like in World War II in Europe...
...comes our way. Changes in taste seem to adumbrate changes in reality, and when "that Depression look" came back it brought with it a new depression. Stavisky is a movie for people who are sincerely worried about how to spend the time that remains between tomorrow morning and Armageddon; not for those, like the circle of young men and women who gather around Trotsky, who take life seriously and don't have to worry about boredom...
Cornelius, the programmer (Jenny Runacre) and the three scientists rather tentatively join forces to avert Armageddon and usher in a new age. It will be the time of what Cornelius' ex ophthalmic guru (Hugh Griffith) calls a "new messiah, born of an age of science." At the end of this giddy, spectacular and sometimes quite funny fantasy, the neo-messiah makes his debut...
...example, that the runtish Manson, who had spent half his life in reformatories and prisons, had gamed iron control over a youthful "family" of some 60 members? Would any sane person credit Bugliosi's explanation of Manson's motive for the killings: to incite "helter skelter" - an Armageddon between blacks and whites that would eventually make Manson the leader of the world...