Word: millenniums
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...Class of 2001. In a fit of nostalgia, or perhaps just the ambling curiosity of a junior who fondly remembers her days in Canaday, I took a seat on the steps of Widener and eavesdropped as dean after dean warned the first years about what to expect before the millennium was up. As I glanced around the Yard, I noticed that aside from a few people in the choirs and the band, and maybe a few alumni parents, I was the only person there who could judge whether or not the first years were hearing the truth...
...courage she showed and the respect she engendered as mankind crossed the first millennium can serve as an inspiration for us, now that the next millennium is beginning to dawn upon us," Vigdis said...
Lear was right. As the millennium approaches and baby boomers begin to confront their mortality, people have begun to seek out the comfort of religion in all aspects of their lives--even on TV. "Since the beginning of television, God has been a taboo word," says Father Ellwood ("Bud") Kieser, whose program Insight was one of the pioneers of religious TV in the '60s. "The industry was convinced that entertainment and religion were incompatible. Now there is dramatic evidence that this is not true...
...more than relaxing taboos, the approaching millennium or aging baby boomers--that's probably it. As with the nasty rash of shows that broke out after the first season of Friends (remember Can't Hurry Love? Pig Sty?), producers are standing in line to photocopy Touched by an Angel. But the conversion might not hold. The networks' best religious shows, Promised Land and Nothing Sacred, risk getting crushed by their heathen Thursday-night competition, Friends. Religion may be jamming the tube this season, but the young and the reckless still rule. Sinners, after all, have killer demographics...
...undeniable and unforgivable overproduced pop groups. Can you say Hanson and the Spice Girls? I hope so, because if these names aren't permanently placed within your internal musical file cabinet you've missed out on a few essential ditties that earned deserved spots on the pre-millennium pop rock landscape...