Word: throwback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...band can't really pull it off. This overproduced sixties throwback is too full of blatantly derivative lyrics and disappointingly dull hooks to come off as anything but a poor imitation...
...project's scale, ambition and high-mindedness -- portentousness even -- are a throwback to a time when the cultural mission was clear, thinking was big, and budgets were gigantic. But then Meier, 57, is rather gloriously anachronistic -- and high-minded and portentous -- himself. While most of his peers have spent the past two decades feverishly inventing (or capitulating to) a sometimes gimcrack neo-neoclassicism, Meier has remained an unrepentant circa-1927 Corbusian -- modernism's last best heir. "I don't think you change your values every day or every time you do a new building," he says. "If you are worried...
...Washington, George Bush judged the Haitian coup a throwback to the violent old days and a violation of the rules he envisions for a new world order. "I'm very worried about it," he said. "Here's a whole hemisphere that's moving the democratic way, and along comes Haiti now, overthrowing an elected government." When the old Stalinists made their power play in Moscow two months ago, Bush observed that "coups can fail." He intends to ensure the same outcome this time...
Homefront is a slick, satisfyingly busy soap opera, which suffers mainly by comparison with the show it has replaced on ABC's schedule: thirtysomething. Next to that complex and very contemporary drama, Homefront seems a throwback in more ways than one. The characters are drawn in primary colors and the confrontations hyped for melodramatic effect. This is the sort of TV drama where a girl puts on her wedding dress, races to the train station to greet her returning beau and meets -- who else? -- the war bride he has brought home but never told her about...
...longtime pasha of 20th Century Fox, as saying success in movies boils down to three things: "story, story, story." Zanuck is an independent producer who has defied industry logic and made hits without big stars: Jaws, Cocoon, Driving Miss Daisy. As he notes with wry pride, "I'm a throwback and part of the vanguard at the same time...