Word: therings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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No wonder a growing number of people just want to hide out. Louis Rittmaster of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is no stranger to Champagne celebrations; each year he heads to an apartment he owns in New York City to toast the ball drop. But this time, the 59-year-old retiree...
"We're not unique," convention-bureau spokesman Rob Powers emphasizes. "The travel industry is seeing this across the board." And reports worldwide bear him out. In Aspen, Colo., tony resorts that would normally have sold out for New Year's week by early November are still unfilled. On Thailand's...
There are economic reasons for some of these millennial disappointments. Predictions of widespread, money's-no-object revels were just that--predictions, of an event that hasn't occurred since the airplane was invented, the Crusades gave way to package tours and Dick Clark was soldered together in a top...
But more important, an underbooked New Year's is a letdown only by a fairly consumerist measure, one that assumes you can divine enthusiasm and millennial spirit in terms of buzz and box office, units moved and luxury suites occupied. People are not so much dismissing the event as trying...
Indeed, for the organizers of some of the millennium's most ambitious bacchanals, Dec. 31, 1999, may just have come a decade or so too late. There's something a bit retro, a shade Dynasty-esque, about such gilded offerings as the Chicago Fairmont Hotel's two-night suite package...