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...future still mixed science with superstition, as was demonstrated by Nostradamus. A successful physician in 16th century France (for years he ministered to victims of the plague), he managed to believe both in scientific Copernican astronomy and in astrology. Eventually he turned to the occult. In seven volumes he foretold "the future events of the entire world" (according to his epitaph). In one of his obscure quatrains, he prophesied that in 1999, "from the sky there will come a great King of terror." Nobody knows what that was supposed to mean, but in recent decades many would-be prophets have...
...when the first rumblings of Gorbachev's thunder disturbed the moldy Soviet silence, the holy fools on the street--the people who always gather at flea markets and around churches--predicted that the new Czar would rule seven years. They assured anyone interested in listening that Gorbachev was "foretold in the Bible," that he was an apocalyptic figure: he had a mark on his forehead. Everyone had searched for signs in previous leaders as well, but Lenin's speech defect, Stalin's mustache, Brezhnev's eyebrows and Khrushchev's vast baldness were utterly human manifestations. The unusual birthmark...
Three songs into an excruciatingly dense set of precisely performed ear-wrenching rumbles, lead singer and guitarist Justin Trosper introduced his band with a nonchalance that foretold the group's indifference to the audience: "Oh yeah, we're Unwound." Only the most self-absorbed rockers embrace such inconsideration...
Though rocker TOMMY LEE's alleged beating of his wife PAMELA was shocking--theirs had been a love unusually well documented--it may have been foretold by his stomach, which is tattooed with the word MAYHEM. Lee's injuries included a bloody broken nail and red welts on her back. She says her husband (who is not only on parole but is also up on other charges) has a history of domestic violence. He made bail but was ordered to stay away from home. She intends to prosecute him and has filed, again, for divorce...
...ever deepening levels, however, Branch's follow-up to his Pulitzer-prizewinning Parting the Waters (1988) is dark and boding--a chronicle of deaths foretold. King no longer holds center stage as he did in the first volume. Challenges to the Georgia preacher's pacifist leadership begin to emerge from Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam and later from its leading apostate, the militant separatist Malcolm X. Malcolm's differences with King were unambiguous and raised legitimate questions, not least of which was the right of self-defense. But the man Branch vividly documents as King's most insidious enemy...