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...great advantage of plausibility. By comparison, most religious versions of Armageddon (the biblical episode) seem as unreal as Armageddon (the sci-fi film). Even most devout Christians don't expect that any time soon they will see the seven-headed beast from The Revelation of St. John, the New Testament's dense and cryptic vision of the last things. But in these final days of the 20th century, religious millennialism has once again found a real world problem on which to hang its visions of doom--the Y2K (that's the year 2000) computer...
This, the alarmists insist, is in fulfillment of the New Testament prophecy of the troubles that will precede Christ's Second Coming. In the Gospel of Luke, Christ warns that "nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and great earthquakes shall be in diverse places, and famines, and pestilences, and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven." In Matthew, Jesus says that when the time for his return is near, the signs will be unmistakable and the faithful will be alerted by the trumpet call of angels...
...successful animated films? Assessing the box-office appeal of Prince of Egypt is a practical way of answering that question. Perhaps Katzenberg's contribution to improved understanding of the Pentateuch would be to allocate a portion of this film's profits to subsidizing independent scholarly research into the Old Testament characters. The Prince of Egypt's expected income would hardly be dented by funding a substantial annual Moses Prize. DAVID W. FAULKNER Bristol, England
...review of the movie, Richard Corliss said it "sometimes looks starched, stodgy," and told readers that "any sort of irreverence would be out of place in this by-the-Book rendition" of the Old Testament. Maybe The Prince of Egypt does not fit the Disney mold. However, a story dealing with mass slavery, violence and pestilence does not lend itself to comedy. Films like this one give me hope. The time has come to honor children as an audience capable of understanding things beyond the comprehension of misguided reviewers. SARA A. SCOTT Laconia...
...fitting testament to the perils of ballooning that this 18th-century technology has never been successfully employed to circumnavigate the globe. But where technical difficulties, bad weather and worse luck have taken their toll in the past, the dark clouds of politics are threatening now as Richard Branson, Steve Fossett and Per Lindstrand approach northern Chinese airspace -- which Chinese authorities insist is off limits...