Word: throwbacks
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Will car buyers love this throwback to the '50s as much as they do the New Beetle and the PT Cruiser? Here's a hint: the Dallas retailer Neiman Marcus has just offered a special edition of 200 T-Birds for sale in its 2000 Christmas catalog. When the phone lines opened in September, all 200 cars, priced at $41,999 each, were sold in 2 hrs. 15 min. That's more like a love bite than a mere peck on the cheek...
...vigorously, relentlessly. Instead of bickering over details of drug prescription plans and the like, trying to beat a policy wonk at policy wonking, Bush should be sketching, with strong, simple, repetitive clarity, the principles that he stands for, as opposed to those Gore represents. Gore is vulnerable as a throwback liberal, a big- government, all-daddy statist whose big rock candy mountain mentality assumes that the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings, and little need be done to encourage capital investment. The long prosperity has produced a certain heedlessness about the economic facts of life...
...land of no taste, the man with bad taste is king. John Waters has been lobbing turd grenades at American culture since Pink Flamingos in 1972. These days, with unimaginative grossness prevailing in popular art, Waters seems a throwback, an Edwardian dandy forced to baby-sit the South Park kids. How to offend, he must wonder, without being an old fart...
...there is little allegorical content in Chardin's still life, and when (rarely) it occurs, one senses a throwback. What he is best at painting is things seen for their own sake, deriving their meaning from their being, not the other way around. The Ray, 1725-26, is perhaps his single most imitated work in modern times. Cezanne, Matisse and Soutine all did homage to it in copies. Anyone who has seen the verso, as it were, of a dead ray, or skate, the commonest of sights in a Paris fishmarket, knows that the underside of this fish bears...
...thrill folks with his speech, keeping it short and slightly aw-shucks, but showed no fear whatsoever. He did look a generation older than his running mate - the classic middle-aged white guy with a paunch - and no one mentioned Cheney's faulty ticker. For Bush, he's a throwback to another Washington, when men were tight-lipped and professional about things, when folks argued less and got more things done, when Republicans didn't use hair-dryers. At least that's the idea...