Word: throwback
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...committee that will choose the next president is a demographic throwback too--to old, traditional Harvard. There are only two women and one minority in the group...
...atrocities of the diamond wars in Angola and Sierra Leone have finally infiltrated the mainstream American press, and ever so slowly, the assumptions about engagement rings are starting to change. That shift, which strikes so many as a callous dismissal of age-old tradition, actually represents something of a throwback - the colored gems finding favor in today's market were also extremely popular among 18th- and 19th-century brides...
Nader and Buchanan - each a throwback to '60s configurations, the one a countercultural enviro-saint and the other an old Nixon gunslinger, the two now, oddly, working the same side of the economic street - would bring authenticity, a depth and passion of thought, to what will otherwise be dimensionless debates, turning, as in the past, upon such fatuities as "I paid for this microphone!" and "Where's the beef...
...Bucking the prevailing trend of what's derisively called "gorilla baseball" in the college game and "the NL Central" in the pros--relying on juiced-up batters drilling juiced-up balls for double-digit run totals--Walsh's Crimson played baseball so throwback that watching it, you felt like it should have been in black-and-white...
...audience of Picasso at the Lapin Agile was made to feel as though they were watching a play in the comfort of their own living room. For anyone familiar with the history of English-language theater, such a sensation does not carry good associations. It is a troubling throwback, in a way, to the days of the drawing room comedy...