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...fiscal requirements. Veltchev, 36, grew up in Sofia and did graduate business studies at the University of Rochester and M.I.T. He left Merrill Lynch in London for a cabinet post in the new government of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in July 2001. Bulgaria was engulfed in a wave of nostalgia-tinged optimism inspired by the new Prime Minister - also the country's former child King. Within a year, the party's ratings had plummeted; Veltchev's decision to award a contract to reform Bulgaria's corruption-plagued customs service to a British firm - without open bidding - prompted calls...
Fortunately, nostalgia isn't all you get from this book. In the best pieces, Barry explores wider themes, most often the loss of childhood innocence. The "Dancing" piece, for example, changes when the teenage Lynda learns that she dances like a spaz. "All of sudden dancing got hard," she writes, showing herself caught between the desire for and dread of carefree dancing. Told in a vaguely chronological order, each vignette explores a different aspect of the change from childhood to the alienated world of the teenager. Particularly vivid is Barry's portrait of her mother, a Filipino immigrant with...
...Look Back In Angst," James Poniewozik wrote about the new television programs that treat the cold war era with nostalgia [TELEVISION, Sept. 23]. He referred to the era of bomb shelters and the Cuban missile crisis and said, "Back then, we joked about it." As a 63-year-old curmudgeon, I remember how we felt then, and there was nothing humorous about bomb drills or the Cuban missile crisis or the likelihood that going into a shelter wouldn't save you. If we joked about the Bomb, it wasn't back then but well after the fact. And the laughter...
...single, A Moment Like This, is one of the best Kodak jingles ever to masquerade as a pop song. Tamyra Gray's take on A House Is Not a Home is respectable, but the rest of the singers on this instant piece of pop nostalgia really do deserve the withering insults to which they were subjected. The song selection (lots of Stevie Wonder) is repetitive, and the performances have the spooky, hyperemotive quality of a Six Flags revue. That trait may come in handy in the performers' inevitable search for future employment. --BY JOSH TYRANGIEL
...experience was rowing for the boat that won the Straus Cup in the spring of 2001. On that same crew boat, Lau made a love connection. “The girl who rowed on the third seat went with me to the formal,” Lau says with nostalgia. Now, however, there are strict rules against dating any of his advisees. “It’s one of the downsides of being an affiliate,” he says...