Word: nostalgia
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...Blur's rivalry with Oasis. "For us it was more of a diversion than an impetus. It has always seemed a ridiculous coupling." He has a point: where Oasis was lager louts, Blur was college boys. And these days, with the Gallagher brothers still playing to the Britpop nostalgia crowd - churning out new records stuck in Oasis' mid-'90s towering guitar rut - Blur has been quietly growing, developing its sound and self-confidence. And with Think Tank, the band has produced its most mature and accomplished album to date - with or without its resident guitar slinger. Despite the new breakthrough...
...meant being away from television and having to participate in physically demanding, often competitive, group activities. In spite of this prejudice I came away from Michel Rabagliati's summer camp memoir, "Paul Has a Summer Job," (Drawn and Quarterly; 160 pp.; $16.95) with a warm sense of second-hand nostalgia. It has the restorative effect of a sunny day by a sparkling lake...
Andrei Jorza ’05, a 2001 Putnam high-scorer, attributes Putnam participation to students’ desires to relive high school contest math memories. “I call it nostalgia of high school,” says Jorza, a two-time member of the Romanian team for the International Math Olympiad (IMO), over a fly-by meal in Loker. “Most people who went to the IMO are not very serious about [the Putnam]. When you’re doing a competition, it’s the atmosphere of people trying to solve problems...
...served hot. Its low quality may account for falling sales. Some breweries, including many in Kobe's Nada ward--sake central for centuries because of its pure mountain-spring water--are trying to reach younger drinkers with products like low-alcohol, low-calorie sake, while also appealing to Japanese nostalgia by encouraging visits. Hakutsuru, the No. 1 brewery, has preserved its 1743 kura as a museum to showcase ancient sakemaking methods...
...painting a mural with her friends she indulged in one last bit of Harvard nostalgia...