Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After his injury, Henry must be taught everything over again, from how to walk to who he is. Ford, whose face assumes the agreeable befuddlement of Mortimer Snerd, plays Henry as an eager but slightly backward child. He returns to his posh Fifth Avenue apartment as if he had been consigned to a foster home. But because his teachers are kind and patient, he becomes a new man and determines to right the wrongs he committed in his earlier life. He is like a reformed Scrooge on a very long Christmas Day. He will buy his daughter a puppy...
Things got worse. The caterer was pressed into service as an emcee. When no script appeared, print-ad winners were asked to identify themselves as slides of their work appeared on a screen, sometimes backward or out of focus...
...Willie Mays, can claim with some justice that he was belittled by stereotypes. "Because I was black, and because I never moved faster than I had to, and because I didn't speak Ivy League English," Aaron writes, "I came into the league with an image of a backward country kid who could swing the bat and was lucky he didn't have to think too much...
...French air base last month with demonstrations of the Soviet-invented "cobra" maneuver. In a chilling imitation of a striking snake, the aircraft rockets upward from a standing start, slows to a near standstill as the pilot pulls its nose just past the 90 degrees point, flies backward in that position and then snaps forward again and resumes normal flight. U.S. military officers dismiss the maneuver as impractical for combat, but the sleek blue-and-white fighters are expected to star at this month's Salon Aeronautique Espace in Paris...
Stackable office chairs are easy to store but too often tough on the tush. Now comes the Perry chair, whose makers claim comfort need no longer be sacrificed for convenience. Created by sculptor, architect and designer Charles Perry, the chair has a single-piece steel frame that flexes backward and forward, while its polypropylene seat hangs from the lower backrest so the sitter's weight counterbalances the tilting pressure on the upper backrest. Result: a user-friendly seat that can be stacked 25 high...