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Article: D.C. set to celebrate - in style.
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 31, 1999
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President Clinton will light a fuse at the Lincoln Memorial just before midnight tonight, setting fireworks - and America's celebration of the year 2000 - in motion.
It is the climactic moment to "America's Millennium: A Celebration for the Nation." Children also will light fuses to spark beads of light dancing over the Reflecting Pool to the Washington Monument. The scaffolded, 555-foot obelisk will then light up in sections, timed with Mall revelers counting down the seconds to midnight.
Finally, the piece de resistance: The Orwellian Ferris wheel next to the Lincoln Memorial, which has been lording over passing traffic on Henry Bacon Drive, will ...