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That's the doomsday prospectus outlined in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, James Cameron's sequel to his wonderfully reverberant 1984 thriller, which did decent business and minted Arnold Schwarzenegger as a robust robot star. A few Hollywood moguls project another, more dire scenario for T2. Their nightmare ( goes like this: after opening this week to long lines and muscular grosses, the film will go flabby. Audiences will quickly turn to cuddlier movie diversions. The action-adventure genre, which has worldwide appeal but whose budgets have been ballooning until they are ready to burst, will finally be terminated. And Carolco...
...have a know-it- all ring. He is sometimes referred to behind his back as St. Paul. Still, he does not close off argument and is willing to change his mind. Unlike most Democrats, he supports nuclear power. His conversion occurred after experts convinced him of the lasting, dire effects of oil and coal on the environment...
...Democratic Front that rules Addis Ababa has assured aid workers that they will be protected. The front also is making efforts to assert control over outlying areas where the government's collapse left citizens without a reliable supply line, for instance in the city of Dire Dawa, in the east. For their part, the Eritrean fighters who have assumed administration of Eritrea province, which includes all the country's ports, promise to allow food to flow freely through their territory...
While Women's Studies--coming from a generally positive five-year review by the Faculty--is not in Afro-Am-style dire straits, Johnson will oversee a transition period. Current Chair Olwen Hufton will be on sabbatical next year, and Senior Tutor Alexandra Owen will accept a lifetime appointment at Northwestern University...
...nobody has seemed to notice. The blaring front-page headlines that announced Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation have disappeared now that the Soviet foreign minister's dire predictions of imminent dictatorship have come true. Just as Khruschev's 1956 invasion of Hungary was overshadowed by the concurrent Suez crisis, the backlash in the Baltics has been buried on page nine...