Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Widener were just as riveting as the film footage of Afghanistan's ongoing depopulation. But, again, actions speak louder than words. Fifty or so was the maximum number of people at the event at any given time, and the organizers hoped for 1000 letters, as a best-case scenario, by the end of the week...
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 satire about automation and the working stiff, was premature. Cat's Cradle (1963), an end-of-the-world scenario, fared better in the wake of Khrushchev's shoe banging and the Cuban missile crisis. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) was, in the expression of the day, right on. The novel was based on the author's experience as an American POW in Dresden when Allied bombers killed 135,000 civilians. This reminder of total war coincided with the mayhem of Viet Nam, and Vonnegut the cult writer became a popular voice of generalized disenchantment. His refrain...
...American land-based missiles in a first strike, making it hard for Washington to retaliate. Though many U.S. submarine- and bomber-based warheads would survive, most of these weapons are too slow or inaccurate to be effective against the Soviets' super-hardened military targets. In this grisly war-game scenario, an American President's only options would be to surrender or use his remaining weapons in a suicide attack on the "soft targets" of Soviet cities, knowing that the Kremlin could retaliate by destroying American ones...
Most of us would recognize this scenario as the typical horror movie, the kind of film we see with the eager anticipation that it will reduce us to a quivering, blathering mass. Jagged Edge, a self-proclaimed "psychological-mystery-thriller" is a departure from that grade B, blood-and-guts genre--and a welcome one at that. Granted, there are some scenes that could send even the most professional reviewer of movies under her seat, but the real core of Jagged Edge is the mind-tangling question of "who done...
...dust hurled into the atmosphere by a full-scale nuclear war between the superpowers would block the sun's rays for weeks, causing the earth's temperature to plummet. The mystery of his disappearance has been compounded by the suspicions of some Western scientists that the nuclear winter scenario was promoted by Moscow to give antinuclear groups in the U.S. and Europe some fresh ammunition against America's arms buildup. Conspiracy theorists speculate that Alexandrov was planning to renounce the nuclear winter concept and may have been kidnaped by the KGB. According to another theory, the physicist defected...