Word: throwback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure looked like a throwback game, as the nonstop rain made the field into a 100-yard plot of mud a little reminiscent of a rice patty. The huge divots in the turf were filled with water, creating the atmosphere of a game only Dick Butkus could love...
...terrible weather was the best thing that could have happened to Harvard Saturday at The Stadium. It forced Harvard to play a throwback style, and the result was a throwback to last year's success-a 19-12 win over Cornell...
...weather and terrible field conditions--"crummy" was Harvard Coach Tim Murphy's description--meant that Harvard went to a throwback, power-running offensive attack. Harvard's first eight plays were runs. After junior quarterback Rich Linden's first pass attempt fell incomplete, Harvard ran three more times...
...Time Warner) have avoided some of the network pitfalls but are yet to break into the black. They benefit from lower overhead costs and do not pay traditional compensation to stations. Moreover, they are striving to establish distinctive profiles in the crowded marketplace. UPN sees itself as a smarter throwback to the mass-audience network approach of the 1960s and '70s (among its newest shows: an updated version of The Love Boat), while the WB, the more successful of the two, has targeted teenage viewers with such younger, hipper shows as Dawson's Creek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
...nice airing to Tyler's pubescent fretfulness, a mix of bravado and bafflement ("I don't have a clue,/ But don't I have a heart?"). And Amanda is the true vocal goods--her precocious alto dusky and authoritative--plus, she yodels. The whole CD is a lovely throwback. Innocence has rarely sounded so seductive...