Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lacroix's billowing nostalgia envelops his own past. Not for nothing did he want to bring the sun and the sea right into his salon. His imagination is almost defiantly rooted in Arles and the rough Camargue area nearby. "I'm crazy about terra-cotta floors, primitive people, sun and rough times," he says. "This is my real side -- goat cheese and bread, elementary things." He warms to his subject. "I suppose that I am really double-faced. I am fascinated by Paris, its elegance, its women, even its artificiality; but with my heart and skin I love the South...
...medium has fulfilled its "promise," which here seems to be identified with opera, ballet and Richard Burton reading selections from Dylan Thomas. So much for all those fun clips of sitcoms and game shows we have been watching for seven-plus hours. Television induces us to wallow in nostalgia, then tries to make us feel guilty about...
...NOSTALGIA ON THE HIGHEST The '30s in all of their sleek and glitzy Art Deco splendor have been re-created in the restoration of the Rainbow Room in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Perched atop the 70-story RCA Building, this classic setting offers incomparable views of the fabulous skyline, plus revolving dance floor, deep purple walls and glints of crystal and brass. Now if only they can cook...
Some treat his reflections on Nazism not as a walk around the rim of the deepest spiritual crater in European history, but as a modish and sinister nostalgia for Hitler. What other motives, the argument goes, can you assign to a painter who at 24 was photographed Sieg heil-ing outside the Colosseum or on the edge of the sea, as though "occupying" these sites in the name of the dead Fuhrer? Plenty, as it turned out. The shot of Kiefer saluting the Mediterranean is an acrid parody, the Nazi as Canute trying to raise himself to the level...
...meatloaf-and-mashed-potatoes theme so fashionable at many trendy restaurants has apparently sparked a hunger for nostalgia in America's home cooks. At least that is the impression one gets from the season's crop of cookbooks. Their titles and dust-jacket blurbs are cozy with words like down- home, traditional, family and old-time, as in "Give me that old-time culinary religion...