Word: armageddons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps. But now that 1984 is well within the sights of the medium-range planners, what technocrat would care to prejudice his findings by observing, "Between now and 1984," as if he were say ing, "Between now and Armageddon . . ."? As it comes ever closer, the year 1984 may well become, like the 13th floor on the elevator bank, a rubric best bypassed...
...union members being thrown onto short-time or out of work altogether, Heath is plainly playing high-stakes British roulette. He rigidly insists that if he gives in to the three angry unions, his Phase III wage-control program will be in tatters. But with the prospect of industrial Armageddon on the near horizon, he has left a door open for himself to work out a generous 'special case' settlement for the three. Such a solution would not resolve all the demands for equality of sacrifice, but it would undoubtedly win broad sympathy...
...same time he is an excellent writer--outrageously imaginative, hilariously funny, refreshingly honest and strangely accurate. He can make Armageddon fascinating, and even his most psychotic visions are driven by a tough, even slightly old-fashioned sensibility--somehow we sense a practical aptitude for survival in his crazed, technicolor world of fear and loathing. What is rather disconcerting about the manic charm of his apocalyptic perception is that the line between reality and his hallucinatory interpretation of it is getting thinner every...
...Jerusalem to proclaim himself God. Lindsey's scenario goes on to forecast that Egypt, leading an Arab-African alliance, will attack Israel, and the Soviet Union, the "king of the north" mentioned in Daniel 11:40, will enter the act. The final conflict, of course, will be Armageddon (Revelation 19), and Christ will appear just in time to rescue earth from the ashes...
...existence. The characters are a semi-pro English north country rugby team. Six days of the week, they are peaceable, nondescript employees somewhere. On the seventh day, they gird up their loins for gory combat. The changing room is where they come and go from their catchpenny Armageddon. In Act I, the men perform their initiation rites, strip down, loosen muscles, get into their uniforms. In Act II, they come off the field of combat, boy-toy soldiers, some broken (George Lithgow) all muddy and bloody. In Act III, after a late-minute victory, they are roaring, towel-flipping conventioneers...