Word: millennium
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...look back? Because it's time: This Dec. 31, the second millennium will really end. And because the past, as recalled and transformed in classical and pop art, is the wisest guide to what lies ahead. Thus we codify the year's pleasures in 10 Best lists, to determine which artifacts in the hall closet of recent memory are worth saving...
...output of new fiction from big-name veteran authors, all producing energetic work at age 60 or older: Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, John Updike. The year also brought posthumous books by Joseph Heller and Mario Puzo. The millennium has so far been generous to readers. In with the new! In with...
...George W. Appointing Powell and Rice, they say, would be a way for Bush to court the group that spurned him most. "I've heard Republican strategists like Newt Gingrich argue that if they could just get 15% of the black vote, they would be in power for a millennium," says Jackson, who at 35 is showing signs of being as wily as his father. "So I'm expecting Bush to make an unparalleled effort to reach...
...break the first-week sales record set in March by 'NSync's No Strings Attached, the Boys nevertheless reestablish their positions as heavyweights of pop with Black and Blue, unarguably the strongest boy band release of the year. Replete with standout tracks that reflect the quintet's maturation since Millennium, Black and Blue not only confirms the perennial hit-producing magic of Max Martin and Rami, the principal songwriter-producers behind the Boys, but also marks the fruits of Nick, Brian, A.J., Kevin and Howie's first steps into songwriting...
Turning your dial to a pop radio station is like turning back to 1999. The Backstreet Boys' new album rehashes track-for-track the pointless pseudo R&B and insufferable ballads of Millennium (cool drinking game: take a shot every time you can name the Millennium song that inspired a new album cut). Perhaps the only interesting thing about Black and Blue is its odd title (didn't you expect something like Jive-in' with the Homies?). The Boys prefer to leave its meaning ambiguous, perhaps because the label chose the title and they're as befuddled...