Word: throwback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hanks is a TV type who made a big splash in movies (first in Splash, then in Big). He is a throwback to old Hollywood, when everybody went to the movies, when movies were the world's TV, when the norm was more ... normal. Back then, quiet types like Henry Fonda and Gary Cooper played the extraordinary ordinary man. That's Hanks. Offscreen, apparently, he leads a calm, happy life. Onscreen, he is less likely to explode than to simmer and smile. With his suburban niceness and elusive, rubberized features -- any photo of him is bound to look smudged...
Increasingly, the theme is homegrown, back-to-basics TV. Spurred by the need to look different and to do it cheaply, new channels proudly let the seams show -- a throwback to the earliest days of TV -- and stress spontaneity and viewer participation -- an attempt to achieve the intimacy of talk radio. Anne Sweeney, chairman of fX, says her channel's goal is to create "a national network based on a local feel." America's Talking will use interactive | technology to get viewers involved. "This is a place where Americans can come, pull up a chair, pour a cup of coffee...
...visit Harvard can be an interesting experience, depending on what you find and who you are dealing with. To be met by such an article, however, is a throwback to the days when one could use derogatory terms like "native bandits" and 'primitive" to make a point of imaginary superiority. Mr. Gell certainly made the point. I take offense with his use of the term "hunted" in the lead to juxtapose the story and create a misguided and obviously unschooled theme...
Friend: Hardly, it's more a throwback to the dungeons and dragons phenomena. The people who wear them are the same kind of people who get aroused about Renaissance and medieval festivals...
...with the wording of minor speeches. He was reluctant to let even minor White House proclamations go out without review. He recently barked at an aide who tried to release a statement on ethanol, saying he had to run it by two Midwestern Senators -- personally. "It's almost a throwback to the old ( days when Presidents did everything themselves," said an official. Added another: "He tries to keep all these balls in the air. He could get away with it in Little Rock. He was smart enough to pull it off in that town. But here? He's not that...