Word: nostalgia
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...intangible element, which is the emotion an object or a building or a teapot can evoke in an individual (in today's market that feeling, ideally, is desire). Think of the stylish plasticity of the iPod, or the silly humor of Michael Graves' now famous Alessi teakettle, or the nostalgia of a surfboard-shaped Marc Newson aluminum table. Great design is both astonishing and pedestrian. It can be shockingly fashionable and downright useful. These days, design touches almost every part of our lives, thanks to mass-market manufacturers and retailers...
...pants, I don’t think of hipster celebrities or debauched 80s icons, I think of sailors. I also think of Farrah Fawcett and this bizarre time in 5th grade where I wore purple velvet overalls to school. Not exactly a time I like to remember with fond nostalgia considering that I was also wearing a white eye-patch that clipped to my glasses. There are benefits to embracing this new aesthetic. Now, you can put your keys in your pocket without showing the outline of them to everyone you have ever known. Also, now, if you feel like...
...game. Baseball has little hold on the black imagination, even though it existed as an institution in black life for many years. Among blacks, baseball is not passed down from father to son or father to daughter. As the sports historian Michael McCambridge points out, baseball sells itself through nostalgia--the memory of being taken to a game by your father when you were a child. But for blacks, going back into baseball's past means recalling something called white baseball and something else called black baseball, which was meant to exist under conditions that were inferior to the white...
...been done over and over,” he says.Fergus also references his deep connection to New Mexico, where the film was shot and where he lived for a time, as inspiration for the screenplay.His deep green eyes glow as he says, “I get pangs of nostalgia thinking about New Mexico.”INESCAPABLEEverything about “First Snow” appears to be connected to Fergus’ own life in some way. Yet, he is quick to direct praise for the film away from himself. Referring to his cast and crew as family...
...Their signatures on the document cost most of them their jobs, and many of them their freedom, yet they recall their dissident years with nostalgia. "I miss that connection with those people back then," Stankovicova says...