Word: throwback
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Wagner said the state senator is "from the old-fashioned school" of local person-to-person politics, and that he attended more than 250 community events last year. "He hasn't changed his conduct in any way--he's a real throwback kind of guy," said Wagner...
...Chicago Detective Chuck Adamson and supposedly based on his own experiences, will follow three characters -- the police lieutenant, a rising young mobster (Anthony Denison) and a lawyer (Stephen Lang) -- over a period of nearly two decades. The two-hour premiere, set in 1962, is in many ways a throwback. The cops wear black trench coats and fedoras and wield their pistols with one hand, cowboy-style, rather than by Hill Street's two-handed method. The Mob characters seem to predate The Godfather, and nobody has heard of drugs. Most of the crimes are, quaintly, jewelry heists...
...ruse was such a ham-handed throwback, so lacking in the artful subtlety that the new Kremlin leadership is supposed to prize so highly, that analysts were stunned. One week earlier the FBI in New York City had arrested Gennadi Zakharov, a Soviet citizen employed at the U.N., after he had bought an envelope filled with U.S. military secrets. Since Zakharov did not have diplomatic immunity, a federal judge ordered him held without bail. The subsequent arrest and jailing of Daniloff offered the Soviets both a bargaining chip and a choreographed symmetry. Or at least so it seemed to them...
Broadway theatergoers proved last week that they still long for carefree exuberance. The street's newest hit, which ran its advance sales up to $2.5 million within days after opening, is a sweet, sentimental throwback called Me and My Girl. Produced in 1937 in London, it made a hit of The Lambeth Walk, ran four years and survived being bombed out of two venues during World War II. Painstakingly reconstructed from sketchy records by the composer's son and revived in the West End last year, Me and My Girl treats its material with respect: there is no modernization...
Such incentives motivate many employees, but others view computer monitoring as a throwback to 19th century sweatshops, where workers were paid according to their output. Today's version of piecework comes into play when employers set quotas that they want workers to meet under the new monitoring systems. Labor leaders contend that the working speeds are often set according to how fast the equipment can go, rather than what pace is comfortable for an average employee. Says Joseph Weizenbaum, professor of computer science at M.I.T.: "There is a widespread notion among employers that it is bad ever...