Word: throwback
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Depp chooses his words and poses carefully, but manages to be convincing only as a particularly promiscuous fantasy lover with all the depth of a glistening Harlequin-novel cover man. His star-power and glamour nearly vanquish his acting skills in a throwback to his "21 Jump Street" days as a brooding teen heartthrob. The camera, too, is seduced, almost comically drawn ever-closer to his face, even when he tries to hide in the depths of his knit brows during particularly emotional moments...
...count in my last week's English 178x section yielded the following results: four ball-pointers, seven roller-ball-users and a lone pencil person. Hmmm. Is the roller-ball phenomenon a throwback from days of fountain pen prevalence? Perhaps proud owners cherish their Pilot Precises and their UniBall Deluxes for their decisive, permanent ink or for the little windows through which they can watch the ink go down and think, "boy, I sure write a lot!" The Harvard humanities notetaker comes to adore the flowing pages upon pages of intellectual-looking lecture notes...
...communications. ``If we use the term uncritically, we dilute it in ways that really count.'' To Jones, community implies not only responsibility, respect and acceptance of the consequences of one's actions but also simply ``being together,'' without any agenda. He regards the urge to form cybercommunities as a throwback to the '60s. ``We tune in, turn on, drop out, make our own rules, man,'' he says. ``This...
...plot with great care, and it takes as long as the actual writing, she says." The writing, when it finally happens, often takes place at her kitchen table, before breakfast. This is a throwback to the days when the author worked in administration, and had to schedule her writing around a full day's work. What is her writing process like...
...under a Republican administration. This is the man who in 1984 questioned the patriotism of ten House Democrats when they wrote a letter to Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega calling for a peace settlement between warring factions. Gingrich accuses Clinton of "McGovernism". But under him, the country potentially faces a throwback to McCarthyism...