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...balanced Top 40 and 80s and 90s throwback music quite well. Though it teetered towards wedding/prom at times, hardly anyone left the floor except to hit up the well-stocked (and well-attended) open bar, including the Dunster tutors, who raged hard alongside students the entire night...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, D. PATRICK Knoth, and Amy Sun | Title: BALLin! FlyBy’s Formal Reviews Pt. III | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

...DJ  for the evening was similarly mediocre -- it was, unsurprisingly, his first night captaining the turntables and he began with some country tunes that sounded dug up from the B-side of a minor Reba McIntyre album, and moved on to playing one too many throwback anthems and far too few top 40 hits...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, Asli A. Bashir, Charles J. Wells, and June Q. Wu | Title: BALLin! FlyBy's Formal Reviews Pt. I | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

Actual Retail Price: Haha, this one is just funny. "One Harvard", sounds a bit like one of FlyBy's favorite throwback mottos. Harvard's too big to fail, right...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Budget Plinko, Part I | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...judicial candidate considered to be in the top tier of potential choices is Jennifer Granholm, 50, the current governor of Michigan. With a court full of Circuit judges, Granholm would make a mark as a politician, a throwback to the past when politicians, like Earl Warren or Hugo Black, were often chosen for the Supreme Court. And there could be political reasons for picking her; though he won it quite handily, Michigan is still a swing state, and Granholm would please unions, one of several groups Obama will have to contend with on his left. Labor and some civil rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judging the Candidates to Replace Souter | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...Fashioned Star No question that Efron is a movie star, but of what era? Adept at comedy and solemnity, synthesizing Michael J. Fox and David Cassidy in their early adorable phases, he is, so far, a movie anachronism - a throwback to when there was a big market for nice. Utterly at ease in the camera's gaze, he's not a preener; he gives the impression of being an O.K. guy who in his spare time is also this teen heartthrob. Which may be a higher form of acting: star acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zac Efron: The Tweens' Dream | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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