Word: nostalgia
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...outlandish clothing this coming fall, or that customers would be focusing instead on updating old standards, like coats and suits. Others, namely Marc Jacobs, chose to hearken back to times that they remember as freer or happier—the 1980s. They tended to become subsumed in their own nostalgia, however, and though exaggerated shoulders and metallic fabrics were a gleeful response to these gloomy times, they did not necessarily come off as conscious or even relevant. We all know how people dressed when times were fun, but how will we continue to enjoy ourselves and celebrate life when times...
...Kraft's project too. The source of the plans for Peter's aerocycle is a do-it-yourself magazine called Impractical Craftsman--an inspired title for the age of armchair American ingenuity and, not incidentally, a nifty description of a fiction writer. On paper, a novel about hope, nostalgia, love, disillusionment, pataphysics and the science of lift might seem like a hopelessly overdetermined bucket of bolts, an aerodynamic impossibility. But Kraft's affectionately satirical, buoyant language makes Flying soar...
...sticky-sweet synthesizer, ironic xylophone, and the aforementioned puns and clichés. The song “Young Adult Friction,” notably and unfortunately, is marred by the phrase “Don’t check me out!”In the battle between nostalgia and relevance, the latter ultimately wins out, due to little more than cunning, guile and a true gift for songwriting. The Pains’ debut album is wrought in broad, confident brushstrokes of song, making evocative, yet playful gestures toward tearing down the temple they so firmly occupy. Gamboling through...
...Rubik's Cube certainly makes a good austerity toy: it can take years to solve and it's virtually indestructible - apart from the easily removed colored stickers. (Not that anyone ever cheated by swapping the stickers, of course.) The Cube is also benefiting from nostalgia for the 1980s, when many parents of today's kids first encountered the toy. "In the crazy times that we live in, adults are looking for those things that remind them of happier times," says David Niggli, FAO Schwarz's president and chief merchandising officer. "I've seen 40year-olds and 8-year-olds stop...
...lavished the same care on the answers he gave to a nervous journalist as he did on his work. I caught him in a nostalgic frame of mind, thinking about the vanished America of his Pennsylvania childhood, and as always, he turned his bright jeweler's eye on the nostalgia itself...