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...year-old Italian reenacted a scene from his heyday. Pumped by the cheers of 11,000 fans, Tomba took off his skis and hurled them into the crowd. Then he tossed his poles, gloves, hat and goggles...
Since the heyday of McCarthyism, religious extremists have demonized atheism to the point where declaring one's non-belief is a bit like admitting to eating babies. This is why the vast majority of atheists and agnostics, who may outnumber all other non-Christian Americans put together, are secretive about their non-belief. Those who are public about their convictions often suffer...
...once-common neighborhood stores are today a rarity--most vintage drugstores seem to have gone out of business or ceased operating soda fountains after their heyday as teen hangouts in the jukebox...
...execs might want to take a spin. Over the past decade, the company's North American unit has been hammered. Although last year VW of America increased sales 1.2%, to 137,885 cars, that's only a third of the metal VW of America moved in its mid-1960s heyday. The idea of reviving the Bug came after VW buffs went wild over a Beetle built for display at the Detroit auto show four years ago. The company did some market research and decided it might be able to win Americans back by rolling out a contemporary version (the engine...
...something that we are led to believe by yet another media hooey-machine, plugs directly into our generational needs. Curled up in jim-jams and sipping Sprites, we supposedly affixed our gradually dried out eyes to horror movie after horror movie in the '80s, the genre's heyday, as parades of Jasons and Michaels, Freddies and Pin-heads ran off those screens and ripped out our hearts. So what's better than a history book on film, something that let us flip through the cliches as through a photo album of a cinematic memories...