Word: nostalgia
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...time. No matter. The audience went nuts, cheering each set piece of whirling action, choreographed by Yuen Wo-ping and Sammo Hung. The film may not break Asian box-office records, as Chow's Shaolin Soccer did. But it's much better: handsomely designed and shot, full of knowledgeable nostalgia for the old Shaw Brothers martial-arts films, and engagingly played by a cast of expert, not-so-familiar actors...
...people," he says. The party's popularity has grown so much that in Bisky's Brandenburg, where the stylish Dagmar Enkelmann is the leading PDS candidate, it is expected to win more seats than any other party. More than two-thirds of PDS members are over 60, filled with nostalgia for the old East German regime. In fact, a worrisome "ostalgia" infects both east and west. According to a new survey in Stern magazine, 24% of voters in western Germany would like to see the Berlin Wall put back up. Bisky says his party's appeal can move west...
...citations, and scholars dissect his writings for a depth that isn't really there. What is there, as fans can attest, is a timeless, effervescent cocktail of comic juxtapositions, smoothly musical prose and exuberant generosity. "Behind the Drones and the manor house weekends," writes McCrum, "is a sweet, melancholy nostalgia for an England of innocent laughter and song." An England that Wodehouse, after his thoughtless blunder, never saw again...
...first, naturally, is that of the towers, or more specifically the orange skeleton of the north tower, seen by Spiegelman just seconds before its collapse. The image appears in every episode of "No Towers," but noticeably smaller each time. This ultra-modern, terrifying vision finds its counterpoint in the nostalgia and comfort of the series' other major motif: old newspaper comics. Explaining that these "unpretentious ephemera from the optimistic dawn of the 20th century" were "the only cultural artifacts that could get past my defenses," Spiegelman works them into the strips in new and unexpected ways. Rudolph Dirk's Katzenjammer...
They trigger our awe and our nostalgia as representatives of a flinty, hardscrabble culture that hardly exists today. They lived out a parable of man at one with nature. They used their bodies as they were designed and programmed over the millennia: for walking, for working, for being fed from the earth's natural bounty. It makes one wonder whether the next generation of oldsters will last quite as long. They will need not just the luck of the genetic draw but also the strength to renounce the lure of fast-food days and couch-potato nights that add yards...