The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia" - a startlingy original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is compeletely convicing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the niovel's hold on th…