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This week Bove is back in America, in Seattle for the opening of the World Trade Organization's new "Millennium Round" of trade-liberalization talks. The symbolism of the trashed McDonald's looms large over the proceeding. As Bove stands at the barricades with thousands of demonstrators, most of them protesting against the WTO and everything it stands for, food is again on his mind...
Zero shows its devilish side again in the famous Y2K problem and the academic debate over whether the third millennium begins Jan. 1, 2000, or Jan. 1, 2001. It all depends on whether the calendar had a year 0. (My solution is simple: Party twice...
...both poke fun at itself and radiate real stage charisma. This new Kiss Me, Kate (Broadway's first since the 1948 original), smashingly directed by Michael Blakemore and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, proves what Ragtime should have: Mitchell is Broadway's first great musical star of the new millennium...
...change in 10 years, as you know. But now that the millennium is actually upon us, examining these old prophecies can help drive home some fundamentals. Besides, it's fun. So before I get to the lessons, allow me a couple of shots at Wall Street's vision of the '90s, circa...
...Freakin' It" to the powerful "Afro Angel," which uses the simplicity of its lyrics as a highly evocative tool. Willennium thumbs its nose at apocalyptic prophecy, evidenced by the irony of the album's first song, "I'm Comin'," where Smith tells his audience to relax about the millennium because "It's not the second coming of Christ, it's the first coming of me." Smith's collaboration with MC Lyte and Ali, "Who Am I?," has a chorus that even the most jaded listener will sing along to. And for New Year's Eve, a copy of Willennium will...