Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cynics will call this a B-team Superman. Screenwriter David Odell and Director Jeannot Szwarc concentrate on strong, simple pleasures: Slater's easy grace and uncomplicated beauty; the bravura of (Obi-Wan) O'Toole, shameless and affecting as he just about tears a planet to tatters; and a hilarious wicked-witch turn by the delicious Dunaway. The climactic confrontation, in which man's fate is decided by two women, could elicit thrills of laughter from a Saturday-matinee benefit performance...
...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...
...death of a far-off star may seem of little consequence to life on Earth, but Seward points out that a supernova may have played a crucial role in the planet's evolutionary evolutionary history...
...cosmic rays of a nearby supernova may have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs," he says. But, he adds, there are currently no stars close enough to place the planet in danger...
...most common error is reporting a comet cited near a planet which is usually just a "ghost image" of the bright object, he explains...