Word: years
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...brother against brother in a vintage New York City gang war. The image that lingers is not of a titanic home run or a dazzling play at shortstop, but of a large, fearsome pitcher preparing to throw a jagged piece of lumber toward a large, fearsome catcher. In the year 2000, the best of sports was about much more than sports. --Robert Sullivan...
There's a term in the arts-fin-de-siecle-for end-of-the-century ennui. So why none for the vague sense of disappointment when a century begins and precious little changes? In the year 2000--the year 2000!--we were supposed to be listening to Theremin symphonies and watching theater in our heads. Instead, we were slinging misogynist raps and hosting game shows, just like yesterday...
Which isn't to say that all of the shows were worthless. Television's The West Wing was showered with Emmys, but more popular--and more weirdly gripping--was Survivor, starring 16 real people conniving on a tropical island. In the year 2000, professed reality battled abject fantasy for primacy. Theater, always about acting, got into the reality act with Lifegame, an improv based on events from audience members' lives. In books, true-life stories continued to sell, but nothing like the fantastically fantastic Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. (Between Harry, boy bands and PlayStation...
Tito Puente 77 The mambo king won five Grammys in a 50-year reign...
...strange, and ultimately sad, year for iconic lesbian couples. Actresses Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche, above, kept it simple: they laughed, they danced, they broke up. For director Julie Cypher and rocker Melissa Etheridge, things were more complex: they too split, but only after announcing, earlier in the year, that their two kids had been sired with the donated sperm of David Crosby. Bi-sexual tri-partite custody...