Word: cassandras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much for good intentions. Most of them escape from the wreck of the model train on the special-effects man's miniature trestle. Such audiences as there may be for this pulse-slowing movie might wish to reflect on the dismal results of commercial overreaching. For what The Cassandra Crossing offers is an unstable blend of three currently popular genres: the paranoid thriller, in which the good guys turn out to be rotten; the train-of-fools story; and, finally, a disaster film. Decent writing and skilled direction might have come up with something admirable for its nerve if nothing...
THIS SPECULATION leads to the prophecies of a Cassandra, but the prospect of statehood does evoke ghoulish images. The cruellest trick for exterminating coyotes on the western ranges is to freeze a compressed spring inside a chunk of horsemeat. When the greedy animal gulps it down, his body heat melts the ice and the spring expands, piercing his stomach. It may seem expedient now to offer statehood to Puerto Rico rather than be discredited internationally as colonialists; to many Puerto Ricans it seems equally comfortable to be swallowed by the wealthiest best on earth. Ford could go down in history...
...such a solution to Britain's problems. Ever since the pound took its disastrous nosedive during the last days of September-thereby forcing James Callaghan's Labor government to ask for yet another $3.9 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund-Britons have been treated to a Cassandra's chorus of elder statesmen appealing for a government of national unity...
...loneliness and humiliation of urban life in New York; the inhumanity of Detroit's factories, which he saw as a model for Europe, alarmed him. These bleak experiences reinforced his conviction that the Western world was collapsing and goaded him to cast himself as a doomsayer, as "Cassandra-Celine," who in 1939 gleefully harangued his friends with prophecies of war: "Scrape out your entrails, my heroes! Come and have your breasts stuffed, my brave ones! ... All to the scrap heap, guts everywhere. The debraining is going to start...
...Cassandra Tate, reporter for the Lewiston, Idaho, Morning Tribune; William O. Wheatley Jr., national assignment editor for NBC News in New York; and Jack E. White Jr., Atlanta correspondent for Time-Life News Service have also been chosen...