Word: throwbacks
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...line of defense against this proposal is, of course, nostalgia and sentimentalism. Fenway Park is the mecca of baseball, one of the sport's most sacred shrines. As the misty-eyed Bob Costases of the world constantly remind us, Fenway and its charming idiosyncracies inspire the current generation of throwback stadiums, and the park is the standard against which all others are judged...
...really in love with a girl. Orson becomes aware of Viola-as-Charlie's affection for him and paces across the stage reading Freud aloud to clarify his feelings toward Charlie. The problem isn't in the performance--Ruiz plays Orson very well as a corny, unhip '70s throwback--but rather in the script. When Orson decides he is gay, Cockburn's pouty, teenage Viola--who, despite her masculine disguise, expects Orson to fall in love with her as a girl--is suitably distraught, convinced she will never have him. But when Viola's true gender is revealed, freshly...
...what Promise Keepers' leaders say but what they fail to say. The group's mission is vague and unsettling regarding its relationships with women. It calls for men to take "spiritual leadership" over their wives, for example, and suggests that women follow. Feminists say this is a throwback to the days of women's servitude and oppression. Says NOW president Patricia Ireland: "Two adults standing as equals and peers taking responsibility for their family is a much different image than the man being the head and master, and women being back in an old role that historically was very detrimental...
Takeover wars are always messy clashes of money and egos in which each side accuses the other of trying to give shareholders the shaft. But the bitter and protracted fight for ITT (1996 sales: $6.6 billion) is a throwback to the corporate wars of the 1980s. "It is very troubling that he didn't put the hotel properties up for bidding," says Mark Sirower, a professor of corporate strategies at N.Y.U.'s Stern School of Business and author of The Synergy Trap: How Companies Lose the Acquisition Game. "He's supposed to maximize the value of these assets...
...that Monday's Crimson, J. Anthony Lewis '48 called Yale weekend a throwback to the 1920s, citing "Cars blocking streets half a mile up Massachusetts Avenue...crowds jamming every restaurant, bar, cafeteria and drugstore around the Square...flags flapping in the breeze up Mount Auburn Street, wrapping themselves around the flagpoles...