Word: age
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Some things are best left unseen. In the television age, the way to avoid trivialization is to remain veiled. Rehnquist has brilliantly managed the politics of invisibility. The very opaqueness of its workings have helped the court maintain its unmatched authority and supremacy. People tremble before it. Quite an achievement in an age in which people tremble before very little...
Even in an age humming with electronic innovation, the new takes its baby steps in the boot prints of the old. Many of the cyber-knickknacks on our Tech 10 Best are binary clones of old friends. PayPal is the next Western Union; the Nikon Coolpix 900 is the spawn of the Brownie. Nike will customize your sneakers, just the way your "artistic" aunt did for your eighth birthday. And Napster: free access to worlds of music! It used to be called radio...
...everything old is new again. And the new? If it's good, it will age very nicely...
...publishing wedge, the moment when books made of paper and ink began sliding into digital obsolescence. But those not yet ready for the brave new reading world can mark 2000 by the extraordinary output of new fiction from big-name veteran authors, all producing energetic work at age 60 or older: Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, John Updike. The year also brought posthumous books by Joseph Heller and Mario Puzo. The millennium has so far been generous to readers. In with the new! In with...
...AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY Michael Chabon's serious but never somber tribute to the Golden Age of U.S. comic books leaps 600 pages of pop culture and current events in a single bound. The title characters, one a Holocaust escapee, create an imaginary pulp icon while they live through an era of real-life melodramas from the 1930s...