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This premillennial Woodstock got started 12 years ago when an unknown artist, Larry Harvey, built a wooden statue on a foggy beach near San Francisco and then set it on fire. For Harvey it was a catharsis to heal a broken relationship. For his friends it was a soul-energizing blast, and Harvey decided it should be an annual ritual. He cast a single brilliant rule: no spectators. What he wanted, he said, was to create "a Disneyland in reverse." Everyone had to be a participant and march in the electric-light parade...
Washington is still a fair distance from Woodstock, so don't expect too many more hugs across party lines. But even before the new projections provided the necessary wiggle room, the deal was offering something for everyone. Late Wednesday night, Gingrich sold it to 25 skeptical fellow Republicans who were called to his office, some of them from their beds. He reminded them that while negotiators agreed to educational tax breaks that Clinton had wanted, they also accepted Republican demands for a capital-gains rate cut, an increase in the estate-tax exemption and a $500-per-child tax credit...
...proportion, the last in a long line of 20th century hot-air generators. Newspapers and magazines have already struck up regular millennium sections; special issues are in the works, as are numerous book and TV specials--if you loved the pack hunt for meaning in the 25th anniversary of Woodstock or the death of Jackie O., you'll love 2000. Merchandisers are horning in too: La-Z-Boy offers Millennia office chairs (the "tie-in," a La-Z-Boy executive offers, is that the chairs have "a very contemporary look"), while Elizabeth Arden has its Millenium skin-care products...
...Chambers (Random House; 638 pages; $35). Tanenhaus' account, essentially sympathetic, is patient, admirably balanced and fascinating in its rich detail. On the great litmus question of postwar politics--which of them was telling the truth?--Tanenhaus is clear. Walking again through all the familiar elements of the case (the Woodstock typewriter, the Bokhara rug, the prothonotary warbler, the famous Pumpkin Papers), Tanenhaus shows, if anyone still doubts it, that Alger Hiss was lying...
...years, I cannot recall one instance in which this spy foolishness has proved to be of measurable benefit to the U.S. Want to seriously cut the budget? Then abolish the agency. The world's free press is far more accurate and timely. DICK CATLIN Woodstock, Vermont...