Word: throwback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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French President François Mitterrand's decision also provoked a test of wills on two fronts far from Central Africa. In Paris, Mitterrand's Communist partners and even some members of his Socialist Party criticized the extensive deployment of French troops into Africa as a throwback to the "neocolonialist" policies of Mitterrand's predecessors. Members of the center-right opposition complained that the President was doing too little, too late. U.S. officials, meanwhile, took umbrage when Mitterrand charged in a newspaper interview that the U.S. had sent its AW ACS surveillance aircraft to the region without...
...tale is not told with great dramatic intensity. Nor is it really as strange and shocking as Beresford seems to think it is. Indeed, to jaded American eyes these teen-agers are rather mild, old-fashioned and languid in manner. As a result, the film is something of a throwback, as if it might have been called Gidget Meets the Heck's Angels...
...federal and state aid, forced the move. "Our general-assistance case load had increased 55% during the past two years," says Dennis Hart, director of the county's social welfare department. "We had to find a way to do some screening of the people we were getting." The throwback has already spurred a lawsuit and a blast of criticism from Bannon Street residents, lawyers and sociologists. Says Harry Specht, dean of the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley: "It's medieval. We gave up the notion of the poorhouse before the Depression." Warehousing...
...together, we put it out to bid to them all. If Karajan or Solti or Lenny wants a piece that is slotted in for me, I'll give it to them in a minute." At a time when major conductors regularly jet around the world, Levine is a throwback to the orchestra-building maestros of yore. "I don't spend my time on planes," he says. "I'm proud of that...
...came from oblivion this summer. But instead of rising as Headlee did on the basis of a mesmerizing brand of politics, the four-term state congressman rode the wave of carefully arranged labor and business endorsements. Slightly unkempt and a failed public speaker, Blanchard is a 40-year-old throwback to Democrats of the past. With a crucial role in the federal government's Chrysler bailout as the single feather in his cap, Blanchard has promised massive public works projects, '60-style...