Word: nostalgia
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...robots on the junk heaps, we realize that WALL?E is a lonely guy. There's an instant poignancy to his puttering around the late, great planet Earth like a solitary child on an abandoned playground, or an oldster among his souvenirs. WALL?E's special ache is his nostalgia for a life he never lived, for the intimate connection only humans enjoy. On his home VCR (a Betamax!), he plays and replays two numbers from the 1969 movie musical Hello, Dolly!: the brassy Put on Your Sunday Clothes and the ballad It Only Takes a Moment, which moves...
...sticking mostly to the north side of Mount Auburn St., sparing myself long, cold walks in the winter down to the rest of the River Houses. Let’s be honest—I was pretty spoiled here.As my four years at Harvard come to a close and nostalgia sets in, Im forced to think about what I have enjoyed and what I would have done differently. Fortunately, the latter list remains small. Sportswriting, though, ranks highly on the enjoyable list.The Crimson Sports board provided me with an outlet to turn my sports passion into a piece of artwork?...
...Campaign’s sights, there’s going to be a lot of hullabaloo around here, as development officers try to preserve momentum from the first part of the fundraising drive and refocus it into the new push. There’ll be palm-greasing, backslapping, nostalgia, and simple exhortations to key alums to the fact that the final goal is no longer near, but two years and $135 million away...
...more like a '50s pop group, the Platters or the Drifters, reconvened to sing their hits at a pbs oldies concert. They mime their classic choreography--and may cheat on the high notes--but it's a treat just to see them trying. That's the instant movie nostalgia of Crystal Skull. It's got the old airs and familiar faces and works up a commendable sweat. All that's missing is the magic...
...Crystal Skull is intended, and works effectively, as instant nostalgia - a class reunion of the old gang who in the '80s reinvigorated the classic action film with such expertise and brio. So don't expect the freshness of the what-one-man-can-do plot in Iron Man, or the oneiric visuals of Speed Racer. Spielberg and Lucas, and screenwriters David Koepp and Jeff Nathanson, are looking not forward but back, to the first three films. They know that moviegoers would be disappointed not to see the talismans of Indys past reappear here. Shall we itemize...