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...news story, it lacked for little. A pipe bomb had gone off; authorities needed to send a robot in to check Ashbrook?s body for booby traps. Shiny, happy, God-fearing kids mowed down when God was supposed to be caring for them. A throwback to Cassie Bernall at Columbine, and the shredded prayer circle in Paducah, Ky., last year. CNN followed step by step the rampage, flight and capture of Buford Furrow at the L.A. Jewish Community Center in August. Just one had died. Columbine? We?ve only just now stopped hearing about Columbine. Yet the shooting barely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Floyd and Ft. Worth: A Tale of Two Stories | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

Bell is a throwback. Unlike other broadcast biggies, he doesn't bully his callers or sensationalize his material. He knows it's sensational enough, so he sells it with a soothing baritone and the coaxing, folksy manner of a modern Arthur Godfrey. He doesn't whine or blurt, even if melodrama is swirling around him. When Bell abruptly left Coast to Coast last October for three weeks and took another hiatus this April, he showed old-fashioned reserve in keeping his private anguish private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The X Phones | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...what some critics have considered a throwback to Atwood's own days in Cambridge when at least some libraries excluded women, in the world of Gilead, women are forbidden from reading...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Grave New World | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...what some critics have considered a throwback to Atwood's own days in Cambridge when at least some libraries excluded women, in the world of Gilead, women are forbidden from reading...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grave New World | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...among so-called "Gen Y-ers," nostalgia's a far-from-novel concept. For example, the early 90s had a strong 70s influence, with the flowered bell-bottoms and fusion. The 70s, with "Happy Days" and "Grease," retained a strong nostalgia for the 50s, and the 50s were a throwback to the 20s. And, as the On Thin Ice comedy troupe proved in their Can't Buy Me Love parody this past weekend, diehard 80s fans linger everywhere, just waiting to bust out with the torn sweatshirts and pink prom dresses...

Author: By Terry E. E. chang, | Title: Play it again, Sam | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

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