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Nine years after the original mission, a team of Soviets and Americans set out to discover the answers to the big questions left at the end of 2001. What happened to David Bowman? What is the true nature of the monolith? Why did Hal go crazy and try to kill the crew members abroad Discovery? Unfortunately, the answers to these questions are intermixed with so much topical information on the state of the world today that they end up playing a secondary role to the film's political message...
...literalists are known as dispensationalists. 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...
...movement can point to the fulfillment of what they see as a major biblical prediction. Two generations before Zionism emerged, dispensationalists insisted that one prologue to the End Times would be the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land. Thus when Israel was founded in 1948, says Hal Lindsey, "the prophetic countdown began!" Israel's capture of Old Jerusalem in 1967 was equally portentous, since it seemed to fulfill Jesus' words in Luke 4:24 and made theoretically possible the rebuilding of the Temple on its original site, a long-established requirement of many dispensationalists. According...
Meanwhile, the governor has distanced himself from the national Democratic ticket. Celebrities, not politicians, join him on the trail. Television stars Hal Linden and Bonnie Franklin, singers James Taylor and Peter, Paul and Mary, and hairdresser Vidal Sassoon have appeared on the governor's behalf While both members of the Democratic presidential ticket have flown in for brief rallies and a handful of southern governors have held news conferences boosting Hunt, only Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo) has appeared recently on the governor's behalf...
...become a self-made millionaire, a three term senator and Chairman of the Senate's powerful Foreign Relations Committee. With his gray-blonde hair, athletic physique and patrician demeanor, Percy looks not only far younger than his 65 years but also like every screen politician played by Hal Holbrook or Gregory Peck. In the past, Republican Party regulars have mentioned Percy as a possible Presidential or vice-presidential candidate...