Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following minutes in the movie, Arkin acts out all of human evolutionary history--from the very first algae, through the many amphibian and primate stages, with a stop at Ramapithecus along the way, faster and faster until he discovers sexuality, and then language. The narrator to this Biology-book scenario notes a sudden pause in Simon's euphoria--probably about the time of the Original Sin--and concludes that "... there's too much joy. He gets guilt and religion...
...fascinating scenario could unfold, however, if the convention deadlocked and failed to select either Ford or Reagan. In that case, the search would be on for a compromise candidate. One possible choice: Baker, the man whose withdrawal is bound to have an important effect on whether or not Ford decides...
...scene, of course, is fiction. No portable nuclear bomb awaited triggering; President Gaddafi, for all his Israelophobia, had taped no such doomsday threat. Yet for thousands of French readers the scenario seems icily plausible. The Fifth Horseman is France's hottest bestseller this winter only four weeks after publication. (The book will be published in the U.S. by Simon & Schuster in July.) Co-Authors Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre (Is Paris Burning?, O Jerusalem) have so convincingly interwoven fact and fiction that the details of civilization's vulnerability to nuclear blackmail appear totally realistic...
Surprise, shock and euphoria set in when a suburban reporter approached me on a particularly humid August afternoon and asked if I'd like to write a story. Suddenly, a terrifying scenario ran through my head. I'd write the story, whatever the subject might be, return to the building and have no idea of how to type my story into the Times computer system, which stores all future stories...
...worst-case scenario: a country with sky-high oil debts defaults on its loans to a major bank, causing that bank, and eventually others as well, to fail. Financial panic then spreads around the globe, bringing world trade and commerce to a crawl, much as happened during the Great Depression...