Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...excerpt from Sherwood Anderson's classic Winesburg, Ohio popped into my head then: "There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood...
...group of eight people is huddled around one another, slowly waving their arms in the air to create an undulating wave of flesh as they push against one another and move within the knot of people. A woman and a man step forward and backward as if they were waltzing, but flap their arms and bend at the waist almost like chickens pecking at seeds...
...Come a Long Way, Baby begins with the backward strings of "Right Here, Right Now," an ethereal track marked by oscillation between synthetic string arrangements and a soothing, choir-like vocal sample to sharp beats and cyber sounds. The song serves as an excellent demonstration of Fatboy Slim's integration of a wide and diverse variety of musical genres into his mixes, instead of relying solely on any particular sound. Fatboy keeps the beats interesting and unconventional at any tempo and consistently resists the urge to fall into static patterns in a musical genre that is notorious for relentless repetition...
Former University of Tennessee golden boy Manning has been slightly less inept and much less flammable than the backward-hat-wearing Leaf. But his glue-horse Colts had empty oat bags after four games, and Manning's 11 interceptions were the most for a Colts team, over that span, since the Cuban missile crisis...
...face of many serious challenges. You could have given your readers probing insights into how the country is faring on all these fronts and how the different political appeals to so-called Islam are being employed. Instead, we got a superficial and biased article about another poor, backward Muslim country plagued by the scourge of religious fanaticism. SCOTT C. ALEXANDER Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies Indiana University Bloomington...