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...BEST PUNCH: "Organized religion, in my experience, has been destructive. Why do I have to do what all these men are saying? Why is a woman's sexuality supposed to be so evil?" Also, turned down Mom's offer...
...prohibits kegs but not bottles or cans of alcohol, therefore possibly compounding the problem of can- and bottle-strewn fields. Also, without easy access to beer, students bent on a buzz will be tempted to drink more of the hard liquor and punch available near the field...
Someday, not so far in the future, planning for air travel may be very simple: You want to go see your aunt in Kansas City on June 4? Punch it in and your computer will spit out an itinerary and charge your credit card. No messy choices, no annoying price comparisons - because there will be only one mega-airline that flies to Kansas City...
...public office. Finally, the presidential campaign that everyone thought was boring suddenly became all too interesting. The election ran aground in Florida, its outcome simply too close to call, a digital-photo-finish that defeated the state's analog voting equipment (and meanwhile added a 1950s term, punch-card "chad," to our lexicon). The cable-TV pundits made their dependable racket and protesters filled the South Florida streets, but as the votes were recounted and Gore contested Bush's apparent victory, the public remained admirably patient--content to let this truly important episode play out. Our frivolous, sometimes hysterical...
...Peanuts" gang was appealing but also strange. Were they children or adults? Or some kind of hybrid? In their early years, the characters were volatile, combustible. They were angry. "How I hate him!" was the very first punch line in "Peanuts." Charlie Brown and his friends could be, as the cartoonist Al Capp said, "mean little bastards, eager to hurt each other." In "Peanuts," there was always the chance that the rage of one character would suddenly bowl over another, literally spinning the victim backward and out of frame. Coming home to relax, Charlie Brown sits down to a radio...