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...this is shallow thinking. Why not write a millennium novel? Or duct-tape the millennium to a novel you're already writing? Almost any contemporary fiction, no matter how inconsequential and light-minded, has a fighting chance of taking on weight and portent, perhaps even significance, if shoved 23 months into the future. And if significance is elusive, where's the harm...
...calendar slouches toward the big triple zero, the prudent citizen reviews options: 1) ascend a barren hillside and wait for the world and the millennium hype to end; 2) turn on a computer and watch its date-bollixed software seize up; 3) agree with the grumps who point out that since there was no year zero, the millennium will not crash down on our heads till 2001; or 4) agree with the Chinese, who point out that this year's date is 4635, so why worry...
Andrew Green's "Treatise on the Millennium" (Feb. 3) is perhaps one of the most self-righteous articles ever to appear in The Crimson. The open-minded liberalism he longs for on campus is itself incredibly close-minded...
Lotto's taste for allegory and emblems is catnip to art historians who go for obscurities in the text, but coming as messages across a cultural gap of nearly half a millennium, they can be maddeningly difficult to read. Portrait of a Married Couple, 1523-24, looks like an ordinary marriage portrait, painted with exquisite fluency and respect: an upper-class man with a squarish, brown-bearded face (he looks oddly like the late Gianni Versace) sitting at a table with an equally patrician woman, Venetian evidently, from the white lapdog she is holding. Her right hand rests devotedly...
...Citi Never Counts (Fortune) Citicorp wants a billion customers in the next millennium, but that might be a problem: It can't even say how many customers...