BACKWARD RAN THE CULTURES UNTIL REELED THE MIND: Afghanistan wasn’t the only place that looked better 50 years ago. Having watched the 50^th anniversary edition of Lawrence of Arabia last night on the big screen at Santana Row, I’d love to take a time machine back to the Columbia Pictures executive suite in 1962. I’d tell them, enjoy it now boys — and how sophisticated postwar middlebrow culture in general is — because in just seven years, your biggest hit is going to look like this.