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This was our own fault: we had put way too much pressure on the new millennium. We'd been getting geared up for the year 2000--a year so special we put the phrase "the year" in front of it--for a long, long time. It was 1982 when Prince released a song predicting nuclear armageddon or a really good party--depending on how you read it--on New Year's Eve, 1999. It was 1993 when Conan O'Brien started his "In the Year 2000" segment ("In the year 2000 Roger Ebert will be so overweight...
...hard to remember now, when Snoopy and Charlie Brown dominate the blimps at golf tournaments instead of the comics in Sunday papers, that once upon a time Schulz's strip was the fault-line of a cultural earthquake. Garry Trudeau, creator of "Doonesbury," who came of age as a comic strip artist under Schulz's influence, thought of it as "the first Beat strip." Edgy, unpredictable, ahead of its time, "Peanuts" "vibrated with '50s alienation," Trudeau recalled. "Everything about it was different...
...Bush's fault; he's just reading the headlines aloud and softening up the ground a little for his $1.3 trillion tax cut. It's not Clinton's fault, though it's still on his watch; the economy, with a lot of help from global doldrums (Japan just keeps getting worse and worse), is coming in for a rate-hike induced landing after a torrid spring...
...What happens between now and then will be the landing - 3-4 percent is soft, 1-2 percent is bumpy but livable. Anything less is the end of the greatest economic expansion in modern history, and a very serious problem for President Bush, even if nobody's at fault but the business cycle (and possibly an overly inflation-obsessed...
Modesty is a virtue, in Victorian novels as well as (in this age of falling chandeliers) Broadway musicals, but Jane Eyre's low-tech production is underwhelming to a fault. Characters are typically surrounded by darkness, as sets are wheeled in and out--a window, a chair, a broken chestnut tree. John Napier's design is often handsome, in its burnished browns and greens, but he and Caird don't seem up to the story's more difficult physical challenges: a fire set in Rochester's bedroom in the middle of the night, or Jane's first encounter with Rochester...