Word: old-school
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...beginning," says Jack Hedges, marketing manager for Canvasback Music, the Sony BMG imprint that released the album. "But unlike most soundtracks, we had living, breathing musicians. These weren't actors who were singing songs." Rather than utilizing Top 40 radio or expensive TV ads, the label relied on the old-school marketing techniques of touring and press to sell their way to a gold record...
...accentuate his blackness and show that he has not forsaken his adopted racial roots. Some will claim that it is good politics for him to do so because the South Carolina primary features a Democratic Party electorate that is 50% African American. Another source of pressure comes from old-school civil rights activists suddenly facing eclipse, such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton...
...perfect candidate to inaugurate a writerless talk show; whatever the substance of his message, he (and Obama) are also playing on the appeal of the unexpected. Likewise, Hillary Clinton came back in New Hampshire after tweaking her guarded campaign approach. Like Leno, she infused an established, old-school brand with enough difference to renew interest...
...some love for Gus Haynes (Clark Johnson), a sarcastic Sun city editor with an unkillable work ethic and a fine-tuned b.s. detector who, despite those qualities--or because of them--knows he's a dinosaur. Maybe the greatest hero on The Wire is Lester Freamon (Clarke Peters), an old-school detective who explains to a young colleague how tediously scouring documents to connect a politician to drug money is better than collaring gang members on the street: "A case like this, here, where you show who gets paid behind all the tragedy and the fraud, where you show...
Prather had a similar experience, leafing through career services materials while his faculty mentor, whom he described as “a wonderful, old-school Harvard researcher,” offered little guidance off the academic road...