Word: relics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...detractors may not admit it, but dumping ABM would ultimately be more beneficial than keeping it. The arrangement is a relic of past hostility and does not account for today’s terrorist climate. If the U.S. is going to make a full commitment to constructing a missile defense shield, which now appears to be the case, then we must go all the way with...
...year old relic of a soccer ball sits alongside the window of Bob Scalise’s Murr Center office. Its markings reveal that it was the game ball for the inaugural women’s soccer Ivy Championship won by Harvard. Initially a gift for athletic director Jack Reardon ’60, who supported the program in its nascent stages, it was inherited by his successor William J. Cleary ’56, and then passed down to Scalise with a twinge of irony...
...materials find their way into our homes, worker-drone felt, the gray stuff used in refrigerator engines and as gaskets, has moved in too. The Feltup chair, from Minneapolis, Minn., designers Blu-Dot, uses felt made from recycled sweaters and socks for its slinglike seat. Furniture-design team Burning Relic makes a table with a 1-in.-thick slab of felt. British designer Anne Kyyro uses felt on blinds and lampshades...
...Raquira—a Spanish relic that lives off tourism and still looks as if it were 1562—I buy a souvenir; a handcrafted Spanish Caravel. It’s two o’clock on a Saturday and they can’t make change. It’s their first sale...
...says was "legitimately counter-cultural" to something that has simply become part of "the nostalgia industry." He cleverly calls the tours of the Who and the Stones and Madonna "civil war re-enactments of rock-and-roll." Indeed, rock-and-roll itself has become a kind of ironic relic, something the newer groups do in inverted commas...