Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until that millennium, however, man is learning to coexist with machine-testing, experimenting, searching for the outer limits of expression. Which is exactly what adventurous musicians have always done. -By Michael Walsh. Reported by Barbara Kraft/Los Angeles, with other bureaus
Deep in the entrails of a Rumanian castle, a malefic beast has been stirring for a millennium. Now it is 1941, and a platoon of Nazis have let the evil genie out of his battlements. On the side of Good, sort of, are a frail Jewish scholar (the great English actor Ian McKellen, sporting an accent that sounds like south central Iowa) and a preternatural Watchman (Scott Glenn), whose eyes go quilted when he gets really mad. With all these adversaries crossing swords, neither the Nazis nor the narrative stands much of a chance...
...side of Syrian behavior that can perhaps be understood best is its activity in Lebanon. Syrians consider Lebanon to be part of "Greater Syria," a vague concept of territorial grandeur that thrives more in memory than in reality. Indeed, the two countries share more than a millennium of history (see box). Both Lebanon and Syria achieved independence in the 1940s, but cultural and family ties still bind their populations, the Sunnis and the Druze...
...movies are a machine that makes art. But what are we to make of films in which the machine is the main attraction? Burt Reynolds may be at the wheel of his Trans Am, Harrison Ford can maneuver his Millennium Falcon in hyperspace, Roy Scheider may occupy the cockpit of the Blue Thunder helicopter, but the hardware is the hero. It knows neither fear nor fatigue; it does the job it is programmed to do and never complains; if it is destroyed, a comradely clone can take its place. For a nation that has cause to doubt that nobody does...
...master, Jesus Christ. The renaissance in Luther scholarship surrounding this year's anniversary serves as a reminder that his impact on modern life is profound, even for those who know little about the doctrinal feuds that brought him unsought fame. From the distance of half a millennium, the man who, as Historian Hans Hillerbrand of Southern Methodist University in Dallas says, brought Christianity from lofty theological dogma to a clearer and more personal belief is still able to stimulate more heated debate than all but a handful of historical figures...