Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ignoring the hot sun, excited fans in black concert T-shirts filled the intersection of Mt. Auburn and Bow Streets yesterday as the Harvard Lampoon presented the Canadian rock band Rush with its Musician of the Millennium Award...
...Francisco, much decayed, if San Francisco had a huge, smoking volcano where the Bay Bridge is. White-robed priests police thought and behavior and try to capture a graffiti artist who scrawls THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS on the same wall every day. The novel veers to turn-of- the-millennium Berlin, where a writer named Steve Erickson is murdered, then to an old recluse named Tom in the American desert, then to what must be early 19th century Monticello, where Jefferson and John Adams jaw dispiritedly about a vast slave rebellion that has taken over Virginia...
...Truman" cross talk during last year's presidential campaign. A surprise came with an award to Robert Olen Butler for his short-story collection seen through the eyes of exiled Vietnamese, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. And playwright Tony Kushner was cited for Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, his epic about aids and the American soul. Kushner released a statement that read in part: "FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABULOUS...
...requiem for the daughter of Alma Mahler Gropius, Mutter evokes the music's intense, passionate suffering. In Wolfgang Rihm's gorgeous Time Chant, written for her last year, Mutter's splendid fiddle soars ethereally over the Chicago Symphony led by James Levine. Can it be that, as the millennium dawns, 20th century music is not so tough after...
...skip the intermediate stages of "socialist construction" and go right to full communism. He called it the Great Leap Forward. It would take a million David Koreshes to kill the number of Chinese who perished (through famine, forced labor and civil unrest) to satisfy that lunge for the millennium. Two decades later, the Khmer Rouge murdered more than a million of their countrymen in an attempt, explained Khieu Samphan, to "reach total communism with one leap forward." Has any religious vision occasioned more human sacrifice than "total communism...