Word: throwback
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...