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...rolls of the snare-drum take over in the Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Mahler describes in a correspondence the hero of this last movement: "Oh him fall three blows of fate, the last of which fells him as a tree is felled." Once the seven sceptres at Armageddon come out of the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony, the scythes they raise deliver a cruel final stroke...
...positions this week--it is hardly worth wishing that he recognize the advances of the last two decades by appointing women and minorities to the posts since they would be obvious and insincere tokens, and since they would be just as willing as the rest to march us towards armageddon for the sake of supply-side economics and military superiority. And it hardly seems worth the trouble for the last remaining liberals to mount challenges to these gray corporate faces--their ammunition, whatever of it survives, should be saved for the day when these men start to implement policy...
Feldman plays the role of a Trappist monk who leaves the seclusion of the monastery to raise money to pay the mortgage. Along the way he encounters an unscrupulous traveling minister (Boyle), a "hooker with a heart of gold" (Lasser), and a corrupt, power-hungry TV evangelist named Armageddon T. Thunderbird (his initials are A.T.T...
...Armageddon's fortunes are directed through his personal talks with God, but when Feldman sees this Almighty, it's actually (you guessed it) a computer. Feldman proceeds to convert God to Christianity and the computer gives away all A.T.T.'s money by dumping it out a window...
...your father in secret," evolution is growth--Jesus is growth, he associates with lesbian and homosexual--always is friend to the outcast and rejected, is for ERA--elevates even the woman taken in adultery, prince of peace--he is not for another round in the thermonuclear race to Armageddon, favors merciful abortion to prevent a tide of the unwanted from filling welfare rolls, prison cells and death rows to the electric chair. To right wing evangelicals Jesus says, "You call me Lord but do not the things I command you." Henry Ratliff...