Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dual identities, says author and comic book historian Didier Pasamonik, a consultant on the exhibit: "There was a kind of diffused anti-Semitism at the time, and it was better to use a good American commercial name to reach the wider public." Even as Robert Kahn had become Bob Kane and Jacob Kurtzberg worked as Jack Kirby, their superheroes reflected some of the identity they were masking, evoking Jewish concepts such as tikkun olam (repairing the world through social action) and legends such as the Golem of Prague, the medieval superhero of Jewish folklore who was conjured from clay...
...demands a double take. In blue sports coat and strides, white slip-ons sans socks, and with a splash of bling around his tanned neck, he looks less like Australia's third longest-serving Prime Minister than a 1970s bookie. Then again, with his lean frame and flowing mane, Bob Hawke also looks terrific for a bloke who'll turn 78 a fortnight after the Nov. 24 election. Rich nowadays and in want of nothing material, what he'd like most for his birthday is a change of government. On this warm weekday afternoon, at a mall in Sydney...
...Prime Minister with all his money." For that line he gets an arm around him, as does the 92-year-old woman who whispers, "Can we get rid of that bastard?" Amid the laughter, no one checks whether she means Turnbull or the P.M. "You're good at this, Bob," someone shouts. "Thought of running again yourself?" Hawke's heard this before. "Been there, done that," he says. "But no one's working harder for the cause, let me tell...
...tipper one day years ago. "You said, 'Keep the change,' " Eli says, "and the change was 5 cent!" Another passer-by bawls him out on economic grounds, something about the prediction - actually Paul Keating's - that Australia would become a banana republic. But overall, the reception's good. "Bob's one of my heroes," says Newhouse. "And as you can see, he's still got it." It's hard to see Labor winning Wentworth. But if that happens, a silver-haired charmer will feel he's played his part...
...lofty ideals about serious news versus fluff, but rather the audiences they’re supposed to be serving. While it may be interesting to have Maureen Dowd’s voice imploring us to save the world at seven in the morning, we’ll stick with Bob Garfield, thank you very much...