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...eccentricities, Timequake adheres to at least one Vonnegutian standby: make 'em laugh while you're showing them their Armageddon. It's not exactly a spoonful of sugar, but it does help the medicine go down...
...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...
Bruckheimer's next megalomovies are Armageddon, a sci-fantasy with Bruce Willis, and Enemy of the State, with Will Smith enmeshed in a top-level conspiracy. "Jerry's not the least bit fulfilled yet," says DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg, who helped bring S. and B. to Disney. "He feels energized and excited." So it's Mr. B. for Big now. Like Cruise in Top Gun, Bruckheimer is flying solo and flying high...
...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...