Word: retro
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...Patlabor series of videos and films and the original Ghost in the Shell (1995), his new movie takes a story of tough detectives tracking sophisticated robots and dresses it in some gorgeously painterly images. As Sky Captain is set in the proto-past, Ghost 2 is set in the retro future--Blade Runner territory. Like so many films inspired by the stories of Philip K. Dick, this one is awash in meditation on the basic Phildickian questions: In a world where men and machines coexist, what does it mean to be truly human? And in a future world of wondrous...
...ribbon belt, tweed jacket and—for the more sporting chap—a pastel Lacoste polo, collar upturned. But wait a second—weren’t half the people in your Tuesday morning Gov class wearing the exact same thing? Welcome to campus style, 2004: Retro preppy is in, and if the morning traffic across the Yard last week didn’t prove it, check out the recent New York Times fashion piece on the style of the “Yale Man.” This year both genders are getting...
WRITING A BOOK IS SO RETRO. SHOULDN'T YOU BE BLOGGING OR SOMETHING? I can't. It's too hip. Then I'd have to get a BlackBerry, and I'm wired in, and next thing you know, I'm at a Black-Eyed Peas concert with a crack problem. I just can't go down that road...
...With retro ladylike fashions ruling the runways, an old-fashioned item is also making a comeback: false eyelashes, currently offered by cosmetics companies like MAC, Shu Uemura and Sephora. Once considered too gaudy for all but show girls, drag queens and Tammy Faye Bakker, fake lashes were a fashion faux pas in the '80s and '90s. But after Jennifer Lopez showed up at the 2001 Oscars wearing red-fox-fur lashes, the idea began to come back into vogue. "Makeup artists have been using false lashes for fashion shows and on celebrities for the past few years," says Chris Salgardo...
JUST ADD ACTORS The lush, retro Sky Captain was made using only computer-created sets...