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...This peek into the future is not the result of a single stroke of inspiration from one editor; the idea grew over a year from more modest proposals by several staff members. And then, over the past six months, it was prepared under the direction of editors Edward Jamieson and Stephen Koepp. Vacationing in the Grand Canyon's timeless beauty soon after he began the project, Koepp felt inspired to think about the millennium. "We decided to do this issue now because the '90s are really the advent season of the new millennium. In the relative scale of things...
...Show. GARRY SHANDLING, a former Tonight guest host, plays the host of a Tonight-style talk show. Each episode begins with Larry's opening monologue, which sounds just like Garry's real monologues, and brings on real-world guests like Carol Burnett. The twist is that we get to peek behind the scenes, where all is phoniness and petty bickering. It's show- biz satire of the dryest, most in-jokish sort but undeniably funny. Shandling and a guest try to schmooze as the closing credits roll. "Just pretend like you're talking to me," he tells her. Fine, Garry...
Finally, the student center idea. This is perhaps the worst, at least from the viewpoint of the undergraduates you purport to care so much about. Take a short trip down Mass Ave. some day and peek into MIT's students center. Or think of Columbia's. Or even Georgetown's relatively new student center, completed a few years ago. All of these colleges lag behind Harvard in name recognition and prestige. They all have better facilities for undergraduate activities, however...
...feud with Saddam Hussein, George Bush is trying to be Gary Cooper in the climactic scene from High Noon. As the lanky sheriff faces down the archvillain, frightened townspeople peek out of the windows to see who will be left standing in the dusty street. "This planet's not big enough for the two of us," says the leader of the free world...
...death last year of Reed's friend, the superb songwriter Doc Pomus, uses spare instrumentation and simple language ("The same power that burned Hiroshima/ causing three-legged babies and death/ Shrunk to the size of a nickel/ to help him regain his breath") to stare down mortality and peek into the abyss. The title says it best. The subject is loss, but the music, dark and pitiless, is still magic...