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...drink, but opt for something else, than you run the risk of being considered a liquor snob. And it’s hard not to come out of the closet as a non-beer drinker. The Queen’s Head—Harvard’s gleaming, retro social space du jour—has a beer-centric menu and a calendar of events that’s a regular Beer-a-palooza. There’s little in the way of beer alternatives, and pickings are slim for the underaged and gluten-free of Harvard...
...Montana has no fast-flying references and in-jokes for the grownups. "People talk about The Simpsons' playing at two levels," says Rich Ross, president of Disney Channel Worldwide. At Disney, he says, "there are no two levels. There's one level that appeals to both." Parents see a retro family sitcom like Full House and its '80s ilk. Kids see themselves idealized...
...Another class of search engines that we find beyond the top four are the retro-engines, or search engines that were at the top of their game in the '90s like Altavista and Lycos. These engines are the Internet equivalent of classic rock and oldies radio stations that pepper the airwaves. Demographic profiles of these search engines reveal that most users are in the 35 to 44 age category, most likely users that began using these engines in their heyday and maintained their loyalty...
...That's a mere coda, though, to the film's climactic half-hour, when Berg pours on the adrenaline with cool shootouts, last-minute rescues and the cornering of the evil genius. That should give The Kingdom mass-audience appeal as a retro-fantasy of American grit and smarts, culminating in politico-military triumph. Who needs a stalled, baffled, exhausted Army when our four globetrotting, gun-toting crime-solvers can be sent to the scene to sleuth out and wipe out the bad guys...
...suppose Maddin could make his movies anywhere. But no one else could make them. A crazy-smart mix of avant- and retro-garde, they address big topics (corporate greed, national identity, pre-adolescent lust, family betrayal) in a style that suggests an antique silent film rescued from a dump heap - on Mars. The film stock is scratched, the actors declaim in bombastic gestures, the canned music hits overly ominous chords, and the printed intertitles often read like the mutterings of obsession ("Force!" "Must escape!" "What if???"). If this sounds off-putting, jump back on, because Maddin's films - from Tales...