Word: nostradamus
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Cole calls dance tunes "the rock music of the '90s," and it's not necessary to have the vision of Nostradamus to see how dance music is dominating the sound and sales of contemporary pop. M.C. Hammer, Madonna, even the rightly reviled Vanilla Ice have taken dance, with some rap overlay, and spiffed it up for the mainstream. "It started as a minority situation," says Clivilles, a deejay in a New York City club when he met Cole five years ago. "But now it is moving into major markets...
...that any number can play. The electronic bulletin boards offered by such computer networks as CompuServe and Genie are stuffed with doomsday speculations. And one need not be born again to experience a frisson of apocalyptic concern. Also enjoying a new spasm of popularity is the 16th century astrologer Nostradamus, one of whose gnomic utterances predicts the arrival in 1999 of the "Great King of Terror" -- easily identifiable as Saddam, to those with vivid imaginations...
...Americans bought shortwave radios and small portable TVs. Bookstores were jammed, their customers snapping up almost anything about Saddam and the Middle East. In Arlington, Va., Roy's Hobby & Craft Shop was selling the new $16 board game, Kuwait War. Superstitious types were buying crystals and such books as Nostradamus and Armageddon, Oil and the Mideast Crisis...
...Politics of Rich and Poor by Kevin Phillips. Twenty years ago, the Nostradamus of Washington correctly predicted the emerging Republican majority. Now Phillips foresees a populist backlash to the greedfest of the Reagan '80s. A provocative analysis based on social science and a cyclical view of history...
...Nostradamus made a few prescient calls, but even he failed to "see" everything. The Harvard men's tennis team, coming off a spectacular 1990 spring season, which saw it finish with a national ranking of 13, now has to live up to preseason prognostications...