Word: backwards
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...very first punch line in "Peanuts." Charlie Brown and his friends could be, as the cartoonist Al Capp said, "mean little bastards, eager to hurt each other." In "Peanuts," there was always the chance that the rage of one character would suddenly bowl over another, literally spinning the victim backward and out of frame. Coming home to relax, Charlie Brown sits down to a radio broadcast whose suave announcer is saying, "And what, in all this world, is more delightful than the gay wonderful laughter of little children?" Charlie Brown stands, sets his jaw, and kicks the radio set clear...
...enthusiastic champions in the media, the most relentless and prolific of whom is undoubtedly New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman. Friedman's globalization is a fast-filling cup that will lift humanity out of the clutches of authoritarianism, tribalism and war, if only some of the more backward tribal warriors would simply fess up that what they really want is to be like Michael Jordan...
...movie backward from Harry's toast, and the story shows something very odd: nobody, with the exception of Potter, is unkind to anyone else--that is, up to when George is about to go off the deep end. Until then, everyone acts decently, helpfully, cheerfully, with George setting the standard by making a bank into a generous neighbor--not an easy thing...
LOOK WHO'S WALKING After 15 years of research, Honda reports that it has created a robot that walks on two legs in a lifelike, humanoid fashion. Its name is ASIMO, and it can walk forward and backward and even up and down stairs. There are no plans to market ASIMO just yet, but Honda engineers hope that one day ASIMO will help humans with household tasks. Don't worry: at only 4 ft. tall and 95 lbs., ASIMO is less Terminator and more Robby the Robot...
...into a large room of people with Bill Clinton, and it seems like he's talking directly at you. It's a kind of rakish charm on overload. There's a disdain for both Clinton and Presley by the East Coast elites, who saw them as backward, Pentecostal hillbillies, when in truth both were very sophisticated at what they do. They will both be forever lampooned, yet real people who understand popular music know why Elvis was a master, and real people who know American politics will think of Clinton as a master...