Word: fun
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...comes with an FM radio, earphones and fold-down antenna, but we found its reception to be among the worst of the bunch. The colorful Radio Shack Two-Way Personal Radios are currently on sale at $50 a pair but have only two channels and are best for backyard fun or neighborhood parks...
...face on the swinging '70s; Dynasty was the very shorthand for '80s crassness. Titans is a retread, clogged with louche lushes in tuxes and gowns, its old-money family saga as tired as the Williams bloodline. Even casting Victoria Principal as Williams' ex-wife, apparently meant to recall what fun Dallas was, simply reminds us that Principal can't read a line...
...Bushnell, who forged her reputation with the often insightful New York Observer column "Sex and the City" (the basis for the HBO series), has not expanded her repertoire--merely fictionalized it with four disagreeable characters. She takes us on the same ride, only this time it's much less fun...
Reading gossip, Liz Smith cheerily admits in the prologue to her new book, is for people with a lot of time on their hands--"for leisure, for fun." So reading the memoir of a gossip columnist may be a sign that you should start donating time to charitable work...
Whatever 2000 will eventually be known for, it won't be world-class theme parks. The turn of the millennium will go down as the year that the earth's fun-seeking public, at least outside the U.S., soundly rejected their governments' efforts to keep them entertained. Take Britain's Millennium Dome--please. It was conceived as a symbol of Cool Britannia. The government spent $1 billion on it, then sold it last July for just $158 million to Japanese financial group Nomura amid a flurry of bad press, worse reviews and lousy attendance reports. The heads of chief executive...