Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would have thought that Inferno and a pair of jeans would be the cultural artifacts employed to discuss eschatology and economic justice. Just mentioning Dante and Levis in the same sentence is enough to ruin a literature concentrator's lunch, even on a Chickwich day. But we live in a topsy-turvy world these days and if you think the notion of Dante in dungarees is crazy, keep reading. The craziness has just begun...
...Years ago, not one of them would have been nominated for Best Picture. Look at the list from 1974. The Godfather, Part II. Chinatown. Lenny. The Conversation. And ... what was the fifth one? I can't remember." A quick trip to the reference shelf reveals the answer: The Towering Inferno, arguably the worst film ever nominated (and the only one starring O.J. Simpson). So maybe there is something to be said for including little art-house movies on Oscar night. And maybe Brenda Blethyn's closet holds something delightfully ill conceived...
Those who left Boylston Auditorium early mainly headed towards the Coop to buy Dante's "Inferno...
...vigorous, retro-'70s disaster movie, reminiscent of Airport or The Towering Inferno. Only this time the disaster is the end of the world. On July 2 in a near future year, humongous spaceships enter the Earth's atmosphere, hover over major cities around the globe, then send out a heat ray that pulverizes every urban center. Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Moscow--all barbecued. On July 3 the U.S. President (Bill Pullman) plots his counterattack with the aid of a computer genius (Jeff Goldblum), an Air Force pilot (Will Smith) and all their surviving relatives. By July...
...demonstration may have turned a legal brushfire into a blazing inferno. Says Leslie Dach, executive vice president of Edelman Public Relations Worldwide and head of its Washington office: "They [Mitsubishi] have effectively shifted the dispute from the courts to the court of public opinion, where they are losing." Shortly after the demonstration, Mitsubishi Corp. chairman Minoru ("Ben") Makihara began sending signals about a settlement. M.M.M.A. is part of Mitsubishi Motors, which is itself part of Mitsubishi Corp., a loose alliance of more than 200 operating companies the Japanese call keiretsu. Top corporate executives fear that the troubles in Normal could...