Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone forgets everything within a few minutes anyway--each discontinuous moment being rinsed clean a moment later, sins washed away in the sacrament of absolution by oblivion. But arranging to have his second term end in the year 2001 is a stroke of public relations genius. Tomorrow is another...millennium...
...sense, the millennium is Bill Clinton's larger theater; for him there is a balm in chiliad. World War II, of course, was no illusion. The millennium is a sort of hallucination--the calendar's neverland. That's all right; Bill Clinton is a magnificent illusionist...
...imagers considered invoking not just the new century but the entire new millennium. They rejected the idea as being "too grandiose, too out-of-scale." Presidents, they reasoned, can try to shape decades. To aspire to shape a millennium sounds like overreaching...
What lies on the other side of the bridge? For pessimists the new millennium is time's equivalent of those stretches of pre-Columbian ocean on which European mapmakers wrote, "Here be monsters." Either/or: The imagination projects either apocalypse or high-tech wonders, either hell or heaven. Clinton, whose theology is politics, projects a nation going through the biggest changes since industrialization depopulated the farms 100 years ago. Once a balanced budget is in place, he thinks, the basic source of American political conflict in the past decade will have vanished. The country will be ready to search...
...case, it is certain that by the year 2001, the majority of Americans are going to be heartily sick of Bill Clinton--and of the millennium as well. Both will have been with us for an eternity...