Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Friday was hot. And Mildred, my secretary, was late to work. The dictaphone kept sticking and played anything it recorded back to me backward. "Nathan Sincerely," Sirs Dear:" Not to mention the far east, the gold and uranium rushes, the stabbing by nail of the nine year old boy, and the discovery of a living Neanderthal in the Massachusetts mental hospital "I'm joking of course. I've got it all backwards. The Neanderthal wasn't Neanderthal at all, he was just a brilliant guy. And besides that he didn't live long. He killed himself by swallowing...
...when he admitted: "I know there have been rumblings of discontent in Europe-a feeling that too often the United States talked at its partners instead of with them, or merely informed them of decisions after they were made, instead of consulting with them before deciding." Nixon bent over backward to make the point, so much so that an Italian official protested: "But Mr. President, we want to hear what you have...
Conspicuous in the show are 13 examples of his Women of 1950-55. These "bitch goddesses" outraged yet captivated the public taste at the time, perhaps because they were essentially familiar, looking nostalgically backward to Picasso's baleful demoiselles and George Grosz's Weimar whores. But looking backward in turn, most critics now find far more significant the abstract compositions that De Kooning executed between 1945 and 1950, before he immortalized his Women...
...from the front. Assistant District Attorney James Alcock argued: "If the state can prove that the President was shot from more than one direction, the state in effect has proved a conspiracy." One sequence-which was shown in slow motion and frame by frame-clearly shows the President falling backward in his seat, an unlikely occurrence if he were being struck by bullets from the rear. However, the Warren Commission Report has already met this objection by noting that Kennedy fell backward because his chauffeur had speeded up the car when the shooting began...
...surprise is Hoffman's secret: it is because no one expects him to be adequate that he excels. From the beginning, he has been the Chaplinesque figure who makes progress through a series of falls. In his favorite posture, looking backward, Hoffman recalled his circular route from Los Angeles to New York in a series of interviews with TIME Reporter Carey Winfrey. Hoffman's father was a furniture designer, middle-class and Jewish. His mother was a movie fan and named him after Dustin Farnum, the silent-screen cowboy (his older brother is Ronald, for Colman). The game...