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...preachy style that expresses its activist instincts in elemental terms. Propelled by jagged guitar riffs and a buoyant rock beat, the 11 songs seethe with apocalyptic images derived from urban nightmares and primordial dreams. Dust storms, hurricanes and infernal conflagrations rake the world in a kind of New Age Armageddon. In the eyes of Midnight Oil, Mother Nature has been violated, and she's looking for revenge...
Baerwald is assured and savvy enough to mock his own obsessions (notably in AIDS & Armageddon: "I dream assassination/ I hallucinate cash") and to give even his most dour lyric excursions a solid foundation of rhythm throughout. You might not be able to party down to Triage, but you sure can dance to it -- right over the edge...
...spent $27,267,622 of the national treasure to purchase Louisiana, is "the greatest danger to be feared." Herbert Hoover, whose policies helped usher in the Great Depression, declared that "government borrowing . . . is a device to load our extravagance and waste onto the next generation." Eventually, though, as Armageddon kept getting postponed and new generations thrived, the issue receded into the more fevered right-wing swamps. Then came the 1980s...
...vanishing female option of career wife. Quayle made it clear just how much was at stake when she dragged in the draft and the sexual | revolution. This was all-out culture war, baby boom-style: feminism vs. antifeminism, repression vs. permission, mixing things up vs. shoring up the walls. Armageddon with a female cast...
...Among many other things, Lindsey predicted that the Soviet Union would invade Israel and that, after millions of the righteous were gathered up in the eschatological event known as the "rapture," Jesus would descend from the heavens to preside over the real New World Order. In his 1974 book Armageddon, Oil and the Middle East Crisis, John F. Walvoord projected his vision: "Destruction on a formerly incomprehensible scale is clearly predicted for the end time in the book of Revelation and may be the result of nuclear war." Evangelist Pat Robertson has said that in the millennial age the saved...