Word: hals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comes 2010, a sequel whose sole purpose is to explain the ending of its predecessor. Working from Arthur C. Clarke's novel, Writer-Director Peter Hyams lets his movie waltz in place for an hour or so before enlisting the surviving members of the original cast (Keir Dullea, HAL 9000, the monolith) to help provide the inspirational capper. Flash: There is intelligent life in outer space. More, anyway, than in this amiable footnote of a movie...
Nine years after the original mission, a team of Soviets and Americans set out to discover the answers to the big questions left at the end of 2001. What happened to David Bowman? What is the true nature of the monolith? Why did Hal go crazy and try to kill the crew members abroad Discovery? Unfortunately, the answers to these questions are intermixed with so much topical information on the state of the world today that they end up playing a secondary role to the film's political message...
Colts General Manager Jim Irsay said offensive line coach Hal Hunter, a Kush assistant for four years, will be the Colts' interim head coach as the team prepares for its NH season finale Sunday against the New England Patriots...
...literalists are known as dispensationalists. They have devised elaborate systems of dividing history into divinely ordained eras. Reagan is among the millions influenced by this subculture, which is actively promoted by Bible colleges, seminaries, TV and radio preachers, and popular products of the Second Coming industry like Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth, which has an astonishing 15 million copies in print...
...movement can point to the fulfillment of what they see as a major biblical prediction. Two generations before Zionism emerged, dispensationalists insisted that one prologue to the End Times would be the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land. Thus when Israel was founded in 1948, says Hal Lindsey, "the prophetic countdown began!" Israel's capture of Old Jerusalem in 1967 was equally portentous, since it seemed to fulfill Jesus' words in Luke 4:24 and made theoretically possible the rebuilding of the Temple on its original site, a long-established requirement of many dispensationalists. According...