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...must be reactionary, since they are based on conceptions of the past. But it would be fairer to call Zardoz conservative. It is an extrapolation of the present. A group of scientists have achieved their ideal: the creation of an isolated world of enlightened immortals. This utopia, called a vortex, is encased like a gem within a matrix peopled by "brutals." The brutals are consigned to mortality, a mortality heightened by exterminators who massacre the brutals to prevent overpopulation. The immortals of the vortex are oblivious to these horrors. Only one of them ventures into the outlands. He travels...
Zardoz is basically futuristic science fiction. In the year 2293, a warrior called Zed (Sean Connery) penetrates the Vortex, a bucolic society separated from the barbarous, almost medieval world outside by an invisible force field. Life inside the Vortex has a laboratory air, which is not surprising since it is a world created by scientists who have mastered, somewhat to their regret, the secret of subduing death. Aging is meted out only as a punishment in the Vortex, and no one ever dies. Zed is a functional primitive, an "exterminator" at the service of the god Zardoz; he imports into...
...financing of his houses and other aspects of the scandal. Grand juries in New York, Los Angeles, Houston and Orlando have looked into Watergate matters. Dozens of employees of the FBI, the Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service and the General Accounting Office have been drawn into the vortex...
...spirit can be read many ways. I am hesitant to describe, much less explain it, because it seems to contain much frustrated power in its whirling vortex. If you are not alert to the possibility of meaning in such occurrences, you could merely say that it resembles one of those long thin cones you catch cotton candy with, and let it go at that...
...than 59 days), NASA released some of the astronauts' photographic handiwork. The stunning earth pictures ranged from such geological phenomena as craters on snow-capped volcanoes to sweeping views of Hurricane Ellen to an unusual formation of swirling clouds known as the Von Kármán vortex (after the aeronautical pioneer) over the Mexican island of Guadalupe off Baja California...