Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University doesn't follow through--if the valid concerns of local residents are not heeded, and the Web site, community meetings and pledges turn out to be merely symbolic steps taken to placate a vocal community--neither Harvard nor Cambridge will be well-served in the end. We should all be watching closely...
...Western-civilization or other matters of substance--are set at the edgy moment when the 21st century rumbles into view. A Lover's Almanac, by Maureen Howard (Viking; 270 pages; $24.95), is a funny, grouchy, madly nonlinear love story that commences in Manhattan after a drunken quarrel at a turn-of-the century party. Artie, a free-lance computer wizard, has behaved badly, and Louise, a gifted painter of enigmatic farm scenes, has kicked him out of their apartment. The novel, of course, must get them back together. But the narration is chaotic, scattered, raisined with fathomless almanac entries ("February...
...calendar slouches toward the big triple zero, the prudent citizen reviews options: 1) ascend a barren hillside and wait for the world and the millennium hype to end; 2) turn on a computer and watch its date-bollixed software seize up; 3) agree with the grumps who point out that since there was no year zero, the millennium will not crash down on our heads till 2001; or 4) agree with the Chinese, who point out that this year's date is 4635, so why worry...
...Guys from Verona, by James Kaplan (Atlantic Monthly Press; 341 pages; $25), is also set at the millennium's turn, to no symbolic, ironic, metaphysical or literary effect whatsoever. Who cares? It's a caustic parody of platinum-card pretension in New Jersey's upper-middle-class 'burbs. Everyone drives I-got-mine-mobiles, lives in we-got-ours palazzos and connives ceaselessly to trade up for yet grander cars, real estate, spouses and even, Lord love a duck, tennis partners. Was it this way in 1974, when Will and Joel were big-shot seniors at Verona High School? They...
Despite the fact that all the tunes on Pure Imagination are decades old, these renditions don't come across as dusty or dry; every song sounds like opening night. Reed and his estimable sidemen (bassist Reginald Veal and drummer Gregory Hutchinson) turn the familiarity of these old standards to their advantage. We think we know these songs, and then we're shown new colors and deeper shades; the result, for the listener, is surprise and delight. Reed's version of Maria travels through many moods and is, by turns, longing, wistful and celebratory. You'll Never Walk Alone takes...