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...Fran (Alice Manning), is just as stereotypical (but then, don't they always come in twos). She feels her pink-collar job as a graphics artist fails to stimulate her intellect and is unsatisfied with her romantic life. So Fran sleeps with...Peter (Peter Crombie), Paul's old '60s throwback friend, who at least talks of the old idealism even if he too has actually lost...
...Jackson, as he proved in 1984 after the hymietown incident, has sufficiently strong backing from a sufficiently large group of voters to withstand the occasional damaging story. Brinkley noted that the phenomenon of the constituent-less candidate was a relatively new and not particularly encouraging one. Jackson is throwback to an earlier political landscape, when candidates ran because people wanted them to, not just because they thought they should be president...
...throwback to the fire-and-brimstone preachers of old, Swaggart was ever attacking sin, especially sexual immorality and such manifestations as rock 'n' roll, through which First Cousin and Childhood Chum Jerry Lee Lewis had won fame. Pornography, another pet target, constituted a form of "addiction," he proclaimed. Those who sell it "represent the worst our great nation has to offer, the scum on an otherwise tranquil pond...
Most American editors think Murdoch a throwback to journalism's bad old ways and argue that he can get circulation but can't get advertising. Murdoch counters that monopoly papers lack "writing flavor or character" and are complacently boring, which is why newspaper readership is declining. He thinks his own journalism is as new-fashioned as local television news, which in its more competitive world often emphasizes murders, fires and rapes. Murdoch, who knows all the tricks for skewering people, also admires CBS's 60 Minutes, which he once described as "sensational and unfair" in its methods, much like...
...basketball aficionados, Light implemented a fall three-player basketball program in the fall of 1986. These half-court games are a throwback to playground hoop, with the teams calling their own fouls and playing best two out of three games to 10 baskets...