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Gephardt seems to have the millennium race on the brain: he voted against the presidentially sanctioned budget last week, and in a speech this week he will oppose renewing China's most-favored-nation trading status, which the White House and Al Gore ardently support. At the moment, he seems determined to show that you can win in the long run by losing in the short run. Suggestion for Tony Bennett's song list: Rags to Riches...
...MILLENNIUM TRANSPORTATION...
...always been one of the traditional American homes of the visionary. Perhaps its single most intense expression in American sculpture--or environment making--was the three-dimensional work assembled between 1950 and 1964 by a Washington janitor named James Hampton, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly. The visionary urge appeared less often in professional art, until Modernism arrived. There are elements of it in the work of Thomas Cole and in the dark, brooding landscapes of Ralph Blakelock (1847-1919), who was to suffer a depressive breakdown and spend the last 20 years...
...ancestors' place of origin. The Puritans implanted the American work ethic and the tenacious primacy of religion. They also invented American newness--the idea of newness as the prime creator of culture. They lived in expectation of something new and very big arising: Christ's reign on earth, the Millennium. This newness (with ancient precedents that lay in the Old Testament) would bring about a new phase of world history. Newness was to Americans what antiquity was to Europeans--a sign of integrity, the mark of a special relationship to history and to God. It affirmed the idea of American...
...time Zachary Hanson saw his own face on MTV, his reaction was a little different than that of most rock stars. "I said, 'Look at the cute girl--no, wait, it's me!'" says Zachary, a cherubic 11-year-old who won't need a shave until the next millennium...