Return to 1997 CHRISTMAS Index
Return to 1997 CHRISTMAS Index
by Sarah Keen
WELCOME to the 1997 Christmas Edition of the New Millennium and the Latest Edition of ModelNet. This year has come and gone in instant - like the beautiful and dangerous comet. Its flash has taken a Princess and left El Nino, given the UK a new shiny Government, taken us back to the sound of the sixties and sadly given us a classic rock ‘n’ roll death in the mysterious demise of Michael Hutchenson of INXs
BBC: The New Millennium welcomes BBC journalist Sue Lloyd Roberts to our web site and thank her for her generous contributions to this zine. Sue is an award winning journalist with hard hitting reports from Tibet and child labour in the Far East. Please meditate and pause before deciding what to buy your child this Christmas.
ENGLAND’S ROSE - Diana’s death broke the spirit of optimism which the new Labour Government ushered in and still leaves it mark. Personally I was baffled by the outpouring of grief which left many people unable to say how unmoved they were by her passing. A nation which famously stands for democracy and freedom seemed unable to cope with any dissent on the matter. I felt a foreigner in my own country. The same public confusion seems to be holding sway over the Louise Woodward case. Whipped into a media frenzy which was echoed in the States, inhabitants of her home village of Elton were beaten up for doubting her innocence. The same media, despite earlier promises of reform, are now hounding Earl Spencer in the same manner that they earlier pursued his unfortunate sister. And who, I wonder, is buying these tabloids. The same people who attended the funeral in tears? Boswell investigates the cult of Diana in her fascinating article on the people’s princess.
Mr Goose was flamed for his uncharitable remarks on the late princess. But I intercede on his behalf and so he will not be cooked for Christmas.
Lupin - Change for the Better. Just as the world’s press were assured that No 10 Downing Street’s famous cat Humphrey was alive and well and living in the suburbs, questions were being raised about the Internet’s most famous rabbit? A year of silence from the animal led fans to ask whether or not Lupin had been done away with. Had Sarah succumbed to temptation and sauteed the beast in red wine, garlic and mushrooms one dark night?. The truth turned out to be stranger than fiction...
Fresh from London Fashion Week, Anita Capewell, brings us her classic A-Z of this year’s fashion happenning and highlights. Finally, finally the shops have caught on to the return of the stilletto. Already worthy journals warn us foolish females of corns, bunions, bad posture and the ruin of our moral fibre if we so much as step one yard in them. Yes, and men are absolute tyrants but, sometimes every now and then only stillettos can make women feel just drop dead gorgeous. Wear them and enjoy.
The Millennium Team wishes all its readers a very Merry Christmas as we raise our glasses to wish all our readers a very Happy New Year...