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...first memories of China go back almost 50 years. Sitting in front of our 10-in. Philco television, over milk and peanut-butter sandwiches, my closest third-grade friends and I watched, with fascination and terror, the grainy news footage of Chinese soldiers crossing the Yalu River into Korea. It was 1950, the year after Mao Zedong and the communists had taken control of China, exiling General Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Party to Taiwan. And now they were fighting...
MOVIE MEET JOE BLACK MIGHTY JOE YOUNG MY NAME IS JOE ACTOR Brad Pitt special effects Peter Mullan JOE IS death incarnate 15-ft. gorilla soccer coach QUIRK eats peanut butter likes lullabies is Scottish GETS GIRL? yes yes no GRADE below-average Joe average Joe above-average...
...PEANUT BUTTER Peanut butter appeared in the late 19th century. Spoilage was a problem, however, so the first popular brand, Peter Pan, was introduced by Swift Packing Co. in 1928. It was licensed from Joseph L. Rosefield, who figured out how to create smooth, long-lasting peanut butter. Rosefield formed his own company in 1933 and created Skippy...
...remarkable performance in the recent Beloved). Unfortunately, Pitt isn't a natural comedian, he doesn't have much range, and he has problems creating a coherent character. One moment Joe is ridiculously inept; the next an almighty deity. For example, he comes to Earth having no idea what peanut butter is--he literally probes the jar for minutes and waxes poetic over the gooey sweetness. Later in the movie, however, he offers his own perspective on the IRS and denounces a fellow character's "Machiavellian machinations." Fast learner...
...enter a corporate job with the intent of bettering the lives of others. As a result, if efficiency called for layoffs, Guccis must recommend that path. In this sense, social justice and corporate employment may not be mutually exclusive like oil and water, but it is not complementary like peanut butter and jelly...