Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Not all older students find themselves juggling children, term papers and jobs, of course. Many -- mostly the nation's growing population of retirees -- seek out campuses for old-fashioned intellectual fulfillment. "Ever since I got out of college, I wanted to go back," says retired lawyer Robert Friedman, 73, who...
Like Gino, the movie could easily float on its charm, old-fashioned values and easy humor. But as a comedy, it lacks the Mamet bite. One would hardly have expected him to make a film that most grandmothers would love. But then, Things Change.
Sitcoms, too, are playing it safe this fall; the ambitious "dramedies" of the past few seasons have mostly been supplanted by old-fashioned gag comedies. That isn't necessarily bad. The season's funniest new show, NBC's Dear John, hardly advances the art of the sitcom, but it surely...
It is the oldest political law known to man: nothing like a good war to get the populace behind you. Maybe Reagan had on his mind the fact that there really is not a good old-fashioned war -- hot or cold -- around right now, and both government and politics seem...
The L.A.T.C.'s Bushnell readily concedes an inspirational debt to Davidson, and to Joseph Papp, whose Public Theater in Manhattan is a similar urban complex. But Bushnell has fashioned an institution all its own, against perhaps tougher odds than faced either of the others. Like the Public, the L.A.T.C. tends...