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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Exhaustively portraying the events of a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, it has comic exuberance, encyclopedic inclusiveness and a virtuoso display of diverse narrative styles that make most subsequent novels look like spin-offs. RUNNERS-UP One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

AUSTRALIA: The Sydney Opera House is dwarfed by a massive fireworks display as Australians usher in the New Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dawn of the Millennium, Part 1 | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...easier if I could do that." But those who have directed him demur. "He's way stronger than he thinks he is," says Billy Bob Thornton, who worked with him on All the Pretty Horses. Notes Minghella of Damon's work in Ripley: "It's not a display performance. But the journey that he makes in the film is extraordinary. It's so carefully drawn." And both of them use the exact same phrase: "He just gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Matt Damon Acts Out | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...seems to get the fame thing too. When the school that rejected Damon 20 years ago wrote recently asking for a photograph for its 75th-anniversary wall display, Damon and his mother talked it over for a while. What he had predicted had come to pass. "Karmically, it was big," says Damon. A pause. "Of course I'll send them something." Of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Matt Damon Acts Out | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...features historic displays of artwork and literature of apocalypse and utopia. Paperback works of science fiction are also on display...

Author: By M. ARI Behar and Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Y2K Fails to Frustrate Faculty | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

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