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DARK MEANINGS still reverberate like distant thunder from the last millennial passage. There was no widespread panic at the approach of the year 1000, as some writers have claimed, but an inescapable note of Armageddon was in the air. Men pondered over the text of the last days in the book of Revelation: "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea" (Revelation...
...corollary of the new reality is that America is now free to decide for itself what interests it considers vital enough to shed blood for. And even if it misreads risks and stumbles into some crises, its mistakes are no longer likely to lead to a nuclear Armageddon...
...make their move, which allows the folks they've bought from to trade up, which lets those folks trade up -- and before you know it Century 21 and U-Haul are having banner years, furniture is being ordered, new alarm systems installed, tax revenues pick up . . . oh, happy day. Armageddon postponed...
SLIGHT ETHICAL DIFFICULTIES: A bit of a thumbs-down for sponsoring proliferation, destablizing the post-Cold War world, purveying weapons of death and possibly bringing about Armageddon...
...immediate question might be, Why bother? This summer's smash, with $120 million in its first three weeks, is the mucho macho Terminator 2: Judgment Day. But in Hollywood, Armageddon comes every summer. Last year five burly adventures -- Total Recall, Die Hard 2, Dick Tracy, Days of Thunder and Another 48 HRS. -- grossed a robust, cumulative half billion. And Batman, good man vs. evil man, was the big warm-weather hit of 1989. Saving the world is man's work, of course. (Blowing it up is too, but that just proves how powerful guys are.) It's men who face...