Word: throwback
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...reason than have outsiders force change upon them. That Bush is crusading as a missionary of democracy is a crime against the rest of us who are now the victims of Muslim outrage. Muslims everywhere consider themselves under siege. There is an anti-Christian mind-set that is a throwback to medieval times. Young Muslims who were leading the social evolution in their countries have reverted to old views they had perhaps never before even contemplated. Stanley Pinto Bangalore, India...
...title of Young Buck's first solo project, Straight Outta Ca$hville, is a throwback to 1989's Straight Outta Compton, the classic gang life manifesto from N.W.A. (Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Easy-E, M.C. Ren and D.J. Yella). N.W.A.'s depictions of violence, often directed against the police, put Los Angeles on the hip hop map. Hailing from Nashville, Buck hopes to do for the Dirty South with Ca$hville what Compton did for the Wild West...
...throwback to the 1950s. And fifty years behind its time, the newscast failed. By August, there were rumblings that the CBS affiliate would can the format. By November, Carol Marin and her hardcore local news posse were toast. Their attempt at de-sensationalizing local news had only revealed the extent to which Americans (or at least Chicagoans) had become accustomed to the current sorry, sensationalized state of news in America...
...like to joke about the characterizations of various schools, and I am no exception to this. For the most part, though, my impressions were backed up by actual experiences. Actually getting in someone’s face for what school they went to seemed a bizarre throwback, something from a different...
...film, shot entirely with handheld cameras—a throwback to Nair’s years as a documentary filmmaker—follows five stories through the days leading up to an upper-class Punjabi wedding...