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Subject: Re: The Day After - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 20-Nov-83 15:49:55 EST
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uiuccsb!eich    Nov 15 11:29:00 1983


And who are the `we' who must turn around?  How many of `us' live in
the Soviet Union or the East Bloc, where disarmament buttons are illegal?
Save it for net.flame, or net.politics, if you can't contain your moral
superiority.

As for the show, early comment (much of it of dubious authority) calls
it an artistic dud.  But who cares about art, `we' are talking about
the FUTURE of MANKIND!  THE FATE OF THE EARTH!  An amazing resurgence
of apocalyptic thought!

No, the movie showed every sign of being an attidunizing shuck from the
start.  There was the recently-cut line in which a fictitious Russian general
attributes holocaust to a movement of Pershing IIs toward the German border.
No mention, of course, of SS-20s.  And ABC insisted it was `non-political'.
This is one thing conservatives are mad about (another being the
timing).  But politics aside, the piece sounds so patently tendentious
and earnestly depressing that only the fanatics among our latest crop
of peace-lovers (the ones for whom ABC pre-screened it) will like it.