Word: nostalgia
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...band owes to Björk’s Icelandic ’80s band the Sugarcubes, for both groups’ consciousness of (and commitment to) the fact that their translations might not translate so well into English. But Total is all synth, bips, beeps, and Euro-kitsch nostalgia like the faux-Gainsbourg “Orange Mécanique,” in which the woman plays the narrator, her moody tones accompanied by “Melody Nelson”-like bits of soprano...
...strange that they went back to the same interviews,” Caitlin T. Ferriter ’04 said. “I thought they had more to work with [and] it didn’t instill any sense of nostalgia...it left me feeling kind of bland...
...kills felines to make flutes from their souls, and Colonel Sanders (the fried-chicken guy, in white suit and string tie), who moonlights as a back-alley pimp and supernatural fixer. Fans of Murakami will find none of this unusual. Since Norwegian Wood, his 1989 tale of nostalgia and loss (4.5 million copies and counting), the former Tokyo jazz-club owner, now 56, has gained worldwide fame for his coolly narrated stories of odd disappearances, bizarre quests, disaffected youth and a Japan struggling with its wartime past. He is also noted for his nonfiction books about the 1995 Kobe earthquake...
...Fans of Murakami will find none of this unusual. Since Norwegian Wood, his 1989 tale of nostalgia and loss (4.5 million copies and counting), the former Tokyo jazz-club owner, now 56, has gained worldwide fame for his coolly narrated stories of odd disappearances, bizarre quests, disaffected youth and a Japan struggling with its wartime past. He is also noted for his nonfiction books about the 1995 Kobe earthquake and Tokyo subway gas attack, as well as his translations of works by American masters, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Raymond Carver. So vast is Murakami's fame that nearly...
...golden chalice and take it to a castle. The sounds were noticeably altered from the original, and the game's closing sequence was a poor imitation as well. Declared a tester: "This thing is a total rip-off. The only reason to play these games is for the nostalgia value, and it doesn't even have that...