Word: nostalgia
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Everyone has heard it before. From parents, relatives, maybe an older sibling: “College will be the best four years of your life.” Although always uttered with a note of pleasant nostalgia, it’s downright depressing for all of us about to graduate. Are we cruising downhill for the next 60 or 70 years...
...smaller roles: Bernie Mac, Andy Garcia, Carl Reiner, Don Cheadle, Elliott Gould, Casey Affleck. Julia Roberts took this film off, but Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin - last seen together 18 years ago, performing urgent stand-up sex in Sea of Love- are on board for star wattage and the nostalgia factor. Sounds eminently sit-throughable and, on the big Palais screen, watchable...
...Many members of the crowd at last Sunday's preservation rally, like the skinny guy wearing a baggy white tank top with "Power to the People" painted on the back, are too young to remember British rule, but they've nonetheless laid claim to the nostalgia. As the younger members of the crowd listen to local bands at the protest rally, King sees in the fact that they're taking action to sway the authorities as the seeds of a grassroots democracy. "Yes, universal suffrage is important," she says, "but this is more important...
...challenged to a game of “Double Dare.” The event, hosted by the Harvard Lampoon—a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—was less a musical clash than a nostalgia trip. The four members of OK Go competed against the 17-member “Lampoon Band” in a mock-up of the “Double Dare” franchise that aired on the Fox and Nickelodeon networks from 1987 to 1993. Each team took turns guessing...
...ubiquity of digital cameras and cheap flights has made photodocumentarians of us all, as well as dealers of instant nostalgia. It used to be that, in addition to walking uphill both ways, photographers of distant lands lugged dozens of pounds of cameras and equipment every which way, and developed their negatives (gasp!) with chemicals (with what?) in the “field” (the what?). This drudgery is now largely myth (much like secretaries who write in shorthand), propagated by chroniclers of the few intrepid adventurers who braved photography’s inconvenience for its verisimilitude . Janet...