Word: armageddons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-olds. Without a Vietnam War, the new generation is less polarized. "Young people today are not as struck by life's fragility," says John Gardner, head of the National Resource Center for the Freshman Year Experience at the University of South Carolina. "They're not thinking about thermonuclear Armageddon...
...right, life as we know it will end in the greatest traffic snarl in history. The Irish rockers almost caused it last week, when they made a video for the Armageddon-theme song Last Night on Earth from their new CD Pop. Motorists in Kansas City, Mo., got a glimpse of hell: highways were closed, city streets were blocked, and police corralled hundreds of fans. In the video, author WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, 84, whose nihilistic novels have influenced U2 front man BONO, embodies a malign force that brings down civilization. Symbolizing the band's dim view of a rampant consumer...
...point out that Russian missiles are no longer aimed at targets in the U.S. It is true that both sides agreed in 1994 to switch the missiles away from their cold war assignments, but it isn't true that this step moved the world a safe distance back from Armageddon. The missiles' computer memories retain those targets, and they can be restored very quickly. "It is just a matter of a couple of minutes," says a Defense Ministry official in Moscow. And if a missile is launched without a selected target--even if by accident--it reverts to the original...
Bill Clinton may waft on about building bridges to the 21st century, but it was Ronald Reagan who really talked the millennial talk, what with his loose chat about Evil Empires and Armageddon. Surely, the 1980s would have made a better closing decade than the relatively placid late '90s--just about any decade of this cataclysmic century would have. And maybe that's why the millennium already feels like a dud. Compared with where we've been these past hundred years, the new age seems to promise normality more than doom or utopia. Which isn't a bad thing...
...plot cliches: our hero (Tommy Lee Jones) and his perpetually hysterical child (Gaby Hoffmann), ever blundering into catastrophe; the spiky geologist (Anne Heche) who has to exclaim "Oh, God!" 46 times; silliest of all, the ornery whites and blacks who when covered with gray ash learn that, gee, Armageddon is color-blind. And just once in a disaster film, could a dog please...