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...turns out, much of the fun of The Preservationist lies with Noe's daughters-in-law, who furnish him with a chatty, catty shipboard peanut gallery. His eldest son Sem (usually spelled Shem) is married to unflappable, pragmatic Bera, who gets stuck with a lot of the animal-gathering chores. "The problem with people who think that God will provide," she remarks tartly, "is that they think God will provide." Cham (Ham)--the most skeptical of the sons and the most sympathetic--is paired with mysterious, icy Ilya, a refugee from a northern land who subjects Noe's religious zeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When It Rains, It Pours | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

...PEANUT GALLERY...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Elvis Mitchell: Times critic brings Hollywood to Harvard | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

Despite the media scrutiny surrounding Illinois and the peanut-gallery curiosity directed at Harvard, the Crimson still managed to push the best team in the nation to the brink...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Game of the Year Runner-Up: Illinois 4, M. Tennis 3 | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...cheaper, sweeter and, because it is a liquid, easier to transport and mix into foods than sugar. Beverage and food manufacturers see that low price as a signal to use the high-fructose cocktail in virtually everything, substituting it for more nutritious ingredients--not just for sugar--in peanut butter, fruit juices and spaghetti sauce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Obesity Crisis:Agriculture: The Corn Connection | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...pleasure of TV on DVD is getting to revisit another era--sometimes two eras at once. The Jetsons Season 1 (Warner Home Video; $64.92) is as much about New Frontier 1962 as about the distant future. Its ditzy slapstick is like the peanut-butter-and-jelly mix Goober Grape--if you didn't love it as a kid, you're not going to acquire the taste as an adult--and the pop-culture gags (like rock star Jet Screamer and his hit Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah) have not aged well. But the animation is still a classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Meet George Jetson--Again | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

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