Word: specialized
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...they go into business together. LIFE will carry on in the new century as a series of regularly published books and special-issue magazines. The issue in your hands, THE YEAR IN PICTURES 2000, is the first brought to you by the editors of TIME, more than a couple of whom have served tours of duty at LIFE. (There has been, through the years, a great deal of back and forth between the magazines, with managing editors, photographers, reporters and mailroom clerks shuttling between elevator banks and mastheads with regularity and ease.) If the TIME sensibility informs the structure...
This was our own fault: we had put way too much pressure on the new millennium. We'd been getting geared up for the year 2000--a year so special we put the phrase "the year" in front of it--for a long, long time. It was 1982 when Prince released a song predicting nuclear armageddon or a really good party--depending on how you read it--on New Year's Eve, 1999. It was 1993 when Conan O'Brien started his "In the Year 2000" segment ("In the year 2000 Roger Ebert will be so overweight...
...nation teetered, Schulz soared to previously unknown heights of popular culture. One snowy night that December, when Schulz was 47 years old, some 55 million viewers, more than half the nation's television audience, tuned in to the fourth airing of the Emmy award-winning animated television special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas," the popularity of which confounded network executives who had predicted that its cartoon format, melancholy jazz score by Vincent Guaraldi and simple retelling of the Nativity story from the Gospel of Luke would alienate the public. That same night, a musical, "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown...
...very idea of a hotel lobby. At home in his studio, he loved receiving fan letters by the hundreds but resented the demands on his time. Perhaps because he refused so many requests for public appearances, he was unfailingly openhanded in his correspondence, answering scores of letters and special requests from strangers each...
...Whom did Al Gore hire as a special consultant...