Word: doomsdays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ARMS CONTROL: The Doomsday Clock Ticks...
...Jurassic Park, Hollywood apparently has a dinosaur-size hit. Now the town thinks it smells a dog. Last Action Hero, the Arnold Schwarzenegger adventure opening this week, has spurred doomsday rumors because of its ballistic budget (estimates run up to $120 million), a reputedly disastrous sneak preview last month, and the subsequent three-day shooting of a new sequence...
Highly melodic despite all its doomsday undertones, Earth and Sun and Moon remains infectiously listenable. This is Mad Max music you can dance to. Several cuts even hold out a flicker of hope. Bushfire predicts a "new day/ It's larger than life, darker than death/ We're gonna move those mountains aside." And in Now or Never Land, Midnight Oil invites the listener to "dream a South Pacific dream of now or never land/ Suitcase full of good ! ideas/ History that's filled with tears/ Kill nostalgia, xenophobic fears/ It's now or never land." It's an urgent...
...speaker who most fervently expressed the doomsday prediction of Russian science was Sergey Kara-Murza of the Analytical Center for Problems of Socio-Economy and Science-Technology Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences...
...DOOMSDAY ISSUES HAD NOT QUITE DISAPPEARED from the table. They lurked, in the form of two strategic-arms agreements yet to be put into full effect, as reminders of the cost of failing. But when Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin took their seats for Saturday's opening summit session, held in Vancouver, the throw weights on the agenda were denominated less in nuclear megatonnage than in dollars and acres of private farmland and doses of medicine and people-to- people exchanges. The two Presidents spent most of their time discussing how best to stabilize and begin mending the crippled Russian...