Word: throwback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like I didn't realize I was black until I went to Dartmouth." Sexism is probably the most divisive issue. Women, including faculty members, complain that the school remains encumbered with "old boy" history. Yet if Thacher continues to thrive, it is probably because of its throwback traditions. "If there is any single quality we look for," says admissions director Joy Sawyer-Mulligan, "it is a willingness to try something that is not vanilla...
Hoke is a grizzled cop, a down-market Columbo, ill at ease in the new Miami of drug millions and Hispanic flash. Junior, who has stolen Hoke's gun, badge and false teeth, is just the sort of criminal throwback Hoke understands. But Junior's girl Susie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a mystery. A sweet cracker from upstate, this Princess Not-So-Bright is grateful to Junior for the minutest graces: he eats her cooking and doesn't beat her. She and the con are lost souls sharing a postcard vision of Nirvana: a cloudless beach, a dog leaping...
...response: "Having a problem with trust? Try dealing with people in a college laundry room who find it funny to tell an inexperienced clothes-washer that it's all right to use bleach on bright colors. Now I look like a throwback to the 1960s because everything I own is tie-dyed...
James Baker's visit to Moscow this week is a throwback to those bygone days when strategic nuclear-arms control was the main event in U.S.-Soviet relations. Unfortunately, the Secretary of State has less room to maneuver than he needs to make the most of the mission...
...affair seemed both a throwback to the cold war and an illustration of growing openness in the Soviet Union. Rarely have the Soviets acknowledged that a secret agent has so seriously compromised their security. Pravda disclosed that Donald F. -- code-named "Top Hat" by his American patrons, who say he worked for Soviet military intelligence -- passed on diplomatic codes, nuclear-weapons doctrine, civil-defense blueprints and plans for coping with chemical and biological warfare. It was not clear when Top Hat was apprehended or whether he has been executed...