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Cornelius, the programmer (Jenny Runacre) and the three scientists rather tentatively join forces to avert Armageddon and usher in a new age. It will be the time of what Cornelius' ex ophthalmic guru (Hugh Griffith) calls a "new messiah, born of an age of science." At the end of this giddy, spectacular and sometimes quite funny fantasy, the neo-messiah makes his debut...
Perhaps. But now that 1984 is well within the sights of the medium-range planners, what technocrat would care to prejudice his findings by observing, "Between now and 1984," as if he were say ing, "Between now and Armageddon . . ."? As it comes ever closer, the year 1984 may well become, like the 13th floor on the elevator bank, a rubric best bypassed...
...example, that the runtish Manson, who had spent half his life in reformatories and prisons, had gamed iron control over a youthful "family" of some 60 members? Would any sane person credit Bugliosi's explanation of Manson's motive for the killings: to incite "helter skelter" - an Armageddon between blacks and whites that would eventually make Manson the leader of the world...
...union members being thrown onto short-time or out of work altogether, Heath is plainly playing high-stakes British roulette. He rigidly insists that if he gives in to the three angry unions, his Phase III wage-control program will be in tatters. But with the prospect of industrial Armageddon on the near horizon, he has left a door open for himself to work out a generous 'special case' settlement for the three. Such a solution would not resolve all the demands for equality of sacrifice, but it would undoubtedly win broad sympathy...
...same time he is an excellent writer--outrageously imaginative, hilariously funny, refreshingly honest and strangely accurate. He can make Armageddon fascinating, and even his most psychotic visions are driven by a tough, even slightly old-fashioned sensibility--somehow we sense a practical aptitude for survival in his crazed, technicolor world of fear and loathing. What is rather disconcerting about the manic charm of his apocalyptic perception is that the line between reality and his hallucinatory interpretation of it is getting thinner every...