Word: armageddons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dunlap, 60, recent events at Sunbeam are a true Armageddon. He remains undeniably rich. But he has lost more than $200 million on paper with his stock and stock options since Sunbeam shares began to slide last March, and his once vaunted reputation as a turnaround phenomenon is in tatters. That reputation is what landed him lucrative assignments, including previous stints as CEO at Scott Paper and Crown-Zellerbach, plus a high profile that he reveled in. It also put his book, Mean Business, on the best-seller list in 1996. That tome became a bible for those who followed...
...reverse Truman Show--wishing not so much that the protagonists could be released from their scrapes with fate as that we could join them in the fantasy chaos. It's no accident that our favorite side characters are not the delectably evil Cancer Man (the architect of an imminent armageddon that FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully must stop) or even the beloved, bald Walter Skinner (their boss at the agency) but the Lone Gunmen, three earnest dorks who sometimes fight the future by hacking into a computer or peering into a microscope at a heretofore unknown virus...
...rhythmical grumbling." Yet World War I had intervened between the writing of most of the poems included in Prufrock and the composition of The Waste Land; and in a 1915 letter to Conrad Aiken, Eliot had said, "The War suffocates me." Whether or not Eliot had written down the Armageddon of the West, he had showed up the lightweight poetry dominating American magazines. Nothing could have been further from either bland escapism or Imagist stylization than the music-hall syncopation ("O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag") and the pub vulgarity ("What you get married...
...infusive you may feel you're getting a gentle tan as you watch the film. This could be a spiffy updating of TV's first great Springfield--the setting for that archetypal '50s idyll Father Knows Best--rather than the wildly twisted suburbia of Homer Simpson or the Armageddon-arsenal Springfield of Kip Kinkel. The only weapon flaunted in The Truman Show is a dicer-peeler-grater...
...world as we know it? It could happen. Events of the past week have brought us to the brink of the ultimate summer blockbuster: a real-life Armageddon that might just be coming to a global economy near you. Here's how it could unfold...