Word: badness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Current HLS professor Todd Rakoff, who also graduated from HLS in 1975, says that the tone of the school, though it was never overwhelmingly bad, has changed quite a bit since he was there...
...anticlimactic. NBC's much-hyped "Y2K: The Movie" was a bomb. According to the Los Angeles Times last week, sales for millennium shows and galas have been "tepid." The paper reports that "many worry that what was initially looked at as a historic payday may end up as a bad investment covered in confetti." Celebration 2000, a lavish event to be held at the Javits Center in New York, was cancelled after no one bought tickets. Even singer/songwriter/poet Jewel canceled her hometown New Year's Eve concert in Anchorage after selling only 1,000 seats...
...convincing enough that we're willing to buy Jewel tickets, or dig a fallout shelter, or buy a round trip to Tahiti. Bad math notwithstanding, Americans are remarkably blase about Y2K. "Sarah, Plain & Tall," whooped "Y2K: The Movie" before Thanksgiving. Millennium-themed advertisements are almost universally regarded as lame. And even as Y2K computer problems are beginning to surface--people in Philadelphia have been getting jury notices for service in February 1900--there's not much excitement over the impending milestone...
...Haven Not So Bad...
...less than two decades. "The interesting thing is that in Hooper's explanation, as in all the plausible scenarios for how the virus made the jump to humans, the key element is a chance encounter," says Gorman. "In other words, in all of them there's a common element - bad luck...