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The Second Hundred Years (1967): Characters spend 100 years telling each other they have birthdays coming up, not noticing that in the mean time they keep missing all their birthdays because they're too absorbed in the discussion of upcoming birthdays.

The Second Hundred Years (1967): An endearing portrait of Factory painter Hundred Years (II), son of Biblical scholar Hundred Years (I).

The Second Hundred Years (1967): Prospector Luke Carpenter was frozen in suspended animation in the year 1900 while panning for gold in Alaska. He was successfully thawed and returned home perfectly preserved at 33 years of age and a dead ringer for his 33-year-old grandson Ken. Luke moves in with his 67-year-old son Edwin, and tries to adjust to normal life while keeping his exact identity a secret.

The Second Hundred Years (1967): Contestants, drawn from a pool of civil servants in Washington, D.C., had 200 seconds to accomplish tasks such as finishing jigsaw puzzles, crosswords, etc. As each second ticked off on a big clock, a year would flash on a screen, and a group of dancer/mimes would act out an historical event from the 200-year period covered. The show was supposed to be educational, as the audience learned about the historical period. During the last 100 seconds (the "second hundred years"), the mimes would approach the contestant and try to distract him as his time ran out.

The Second Hundred Years (1967): In this unofficial sequel to the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (released the same year as the book, to piggyback on the publicity), the village of Macondo evolves from "magical realism" to "radical nihilism." Believing that no action is preferable to any other, the citizens of Macondo wander aimlessly, and so, consequently, does the plot. For Marquez completists only.

The Second Hundred Years (1967): A wizened alchemist falls into the hands of the Inquisition and is locked away under a 200-year sentence. SPOILER: Just before his arrest, the alchemist brewed and imbibed the elixir of eternal life. Content in the knowledge that he'll eventually be free, he calmly outlives cellmate after cellmate. Their individual stories weave a tapestry of religious persecution in Europe spanning two centuries.

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