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SIGN OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM...
...Leonard (Get Shorty, Rum Punch) has written what could be called a historical novel. If all its characters seem so turn-of-the-millennium contemporary that you half expect one of them to pull out a cell phone, this could mean that the author has utterly failed to counterfeit the past. Or--take your choice--that he has so successfully blown the dust off history that it reads like tomorrow's front page. At any rate, the hero is a respectable Arizona cowboy and bank robber named Ben Tyler, who is caught running a freighter into Havana with saddle horses...
...William Strauss, co-author of "Generations, 13 GEN, The Fourth Turning," points out, the times are changing from the Generation Xers to the Millennium Generation. The Millennium Generation are those people born after 1982 and who present themselves as law-abiding and morally sound. The Gen Xers, born between 1961 and 1981, are without such character and are the drinkers and drug addicted students of today. Let's hope the Millenium Generation restores our faith in character, morals and respect for the law. -Richard V. Scali, License Commission Executive Officer
...dawn of a new millennium--which is the grandest measure we have of human time--permits us to think big about history. We can pause to notice what Grove calls, somewhat inelegantly, "strategic inflection points," those moments when new circumstances alter the way the world works, as if the current of history goes through a transistor and our oscilloscopes blip. It can happen because of an invention (Gutenberg's printing press in the 15th century), or an idea (individual liberty in the 18th century), or a technology (electricity in the 19th century) or a process (the assembly line early...
...Portishead Portishead (Go! Beat/London) Distorted, wraithlike vocals, blaring Big Band noir horns and deconstructed hip-hop beats--Portishead's eponymous album is both bravely strange and weirdly compelling. This is futuristic and cerebral music, but always heartfelt. The sound of the next millennium, today...