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...comeback. In the scientific world, creatures made of metallic bits may have been replaced by ones with electronic bytes, but computers just don't have the charm of the anthropomorphized tin men from science-fiction past. To borrow a line from A Mighty Wind, they're so retro, they're now-tro. Will Smith proved that last year with I, Robot. Now the CGI cartoonmakers, having run through their bug, monster, fish and human evolutionary phases, are into talking gadgets. Pixar has Cars next summer. And the Blue Sky team, which enjoyed a hit with Ice Age, is offering...
...dirty little secret of the Larry-should-leave faction is that they don’t really want him to go. The retro-Rudenstine agenda—a hands-off, status quo administration raising money with one hand and throwing it at professors with the other—is actually best served by an impotent Larry Summers. After all, a new president wouldn’t labor against the endless mea culpas and nonstop pandering that the faculty’s warriors want Larry to learn...
...says the menu, which has a beer list longer than the English 158 syllabus.) But even the underage should give Bukowski a try—just be sure to get there before 8 p.m. on weekends. Bite into a burnt “Buck Burger” at a retro price ($1.69; $1.10 extra for fries), and let the red pleather diner booths and bare lightbulbs awaken your nostalgia. By day, you can catch “All My Children” and your other favorite soaps on the three televisions along with locals decked out in goth gear...
Though he has now run the show solo for 12 years, it probably looks exactly like it did during the Carter Administration. Under the harsh glow of fluorescent lights, throw-backs like an old-school beer price guide and a retro Coca-Cola refrigerator scatter the floor. Newspaper clippings yellowed with age and old photos line the wall behind the counter...
...Retro clutter abounds, except lately Louie’s is missing one crucial thing: customers. 2004 was likely Chen’s worst year since buying the store. Sales dropped by about $150,000, he says—“a lot for a small store.” Chen says he doesn’t really know why, but he has a few theories...