Word: retro
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Vietnam's relentless modernization means there are increasingly fewer opportunities to step back into the country's past. But the splendid Café Tung is an exception. With its retro skai-covered sofas and Jacques Brel posters, it looks more like a 1960s Parisian cellar than a coffee shop in the present-day Central Highlands town of Dalat. Not that there are any complaints from the clientele, who comprise a fair slice of Dalat's artists and intellectuals (the town...
...usual. These two minutes hearkens more than anything—more, even, than the “Age of Aquarius”—to the period in the late ’90s when the Athens, Ga.-based Elephant 6 collective produced some of the more trippy retro-psych this side of “Hair.” When, for a moment, it seemed as if the Beatles and the Beach Boys had never come down from their mid-century heights, but merely taken up residence in a Southern college town...
...episode of ‘American Dreams’ written by Pepe Le Pew.” In a glowing review of Jennifer Garner’s 13 Going on 30 he said that the film “is content to eat its retro snack cake and have...
Impossibly retro-looking contraptions with names like “Launch Box” and “Technitron” line stark white walls separated by utility shelves and black curtains. The studio’s long central table is strewn with crayons and markers and covered in white paper, closer examination of which reveals sketches of cartoon characters, haphazard swirls and scribbles, even notes written back and forth between students...
...Greg Daniels. "But Steve has a way of playing intelligent, articulate people who make foolish choices. People who on the face of it seem smart but once you look deeper have no clue. Which is cool for comedy that's more subtle." Carell is helped along by a Midwestern retro-adult face, made not so much for comedy as it is for telling people to get back to work. He's clever enough to use that look to his advantage, to maintain the grownup posture in ridiculous situations; he's the anti--Jim Carrey...