Word: handfuls
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...hand, the action in "Peanuts" conveyed a very American sense that things could be changed, or at least modified, by sudden violence. By getting good and mad you could resolve things. But, at the same time, Charlie Brown reminded people, as no other cartoon character had, of what it was to be vulnerable, to be human...
...wanted only to exist in the extreme bottom right-hand corner of his own panels - where it said "Schulz." He wanted to limit himself to being that little scribble. If he could draw his four panels a day, sign himself "Schulz," close up shop and go home, all would be well...
...After nearly 50 years of drawing "Peanuts," the world-famous cartoonist put down his pen in January, his hand gone shaky, his vision blurred. Being a comic strip artist was all he had ever wanted. On February 12, 2000, a dark night of pouring rain in Santa Rosa, California, Schulz got into bed a little after nine o'clock. He pulled up the covers. At 9:45 p.m., just hours before the final "Peanuts" strip appeared in Sunday newspapers around the world, Charles Schulz died - his life entwined to the very end with his art. As soon as he ceased...
...Another old hand...
...economic sense of this argument is, well, arguable. Interest-rate cuts take six months or longer to make a real impact on the economy, and Alan Greenspan implements those with a wave of his hand. Bush's tax cut faces a long road through Congress, and of course part of the argument he used during the campaign - back when everybody worried that it would overstimulate a red-hot economy - was that the cuts would be phased in so gradually that no one would notice...