Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spectator was overheard commenting, "He looks like Mr. Peanut...
...1870s Henry Adams wrote that all you have to do to disprove Darwin's theory of evolution is chart the course of the American presidency from George Washington to Ulysses Grant. Downhill Darwin: a century later the process would yield a choice between a south Georgia peanut farmer and a washed-up Hollywood actor...
...Women and Wallace" goes for the theatrical jugular immediately. Minutes into the play we are led into a warm domestic scene: Wallace's mother (Sarah Matthay) calmly prepares a peanut butter and banana sandwich for little Wallace. After he excitedly snatches the lunch and trots off to the second grade, Wallace's mother jots a note and then slits her throat. As the play progresses, it becomes clear that this is the defining moment of Wallace's life. We know early on why his relationships with women will be screwed up and inevitably end in disaster...
...considers its irrelevance to the larger political community. If our generation wishes to make a difference, to influence politics in positive and constructive ways, it cannot simply indulge in infantile self-assertions of prerogatives to hedonism. And if editorialists wish their work to transcend the fruitless mockery of a peanut gallery, they must forsake their stylized satire for constructive engagement with reformers around them...
...with only the occasional nostalgic joint at a Dead show--they could also see Garcia mature and decay. They were Dorian Gray, and he was the picture. His belly ballooned; his skin was looser; his hair turned a ratty touch of gray. He looked as if he existed on peanut butter and peyote buttons...