Word: throwbacks
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...informally agreed to compete every three or four years in the roughly 65-ft. boats called 12-meters (the meter designation refers to an abstruse architectural equation to which the craft must conform). But Fay proposed to vie for the Cup in a new 120-ft. K boat, a throwback to the majestic J boats used before World War II. In San Diego's light breezes, her soaring 160-ft. mast and other outsize features could give her a runaway advantage over existing defenders...
Lockbaum is special among college football players because he plays both offense and defense. He is both a running back and a corner back. And, as the Holy Cross media guide reminds us, he is a "throwback," to the days when people used to line-up on both sides of the ball and play the entire game...
...drastic steps to reduce the deficit will, ultimately, weaken the economy. Liberal economists say that spending cuts and increased taxes in the present state of the economy would only exacerbate recessionary tendencies. Robert Eisner, president-elect of the American Economic Association, says that budget cutting would be a "mindless throwback to the economics of Herbert Hoover...
...Journal's contentious editorials are a throwback to the era of opinionated press lords, but with one crucial difference. In the old days, hired editorial guns often mimicked or tried to give literary plausibility to the proprietor's every prejudice, cynically crafting synthetic bluster. Journal editorial writers have more autonomy to frame policy. But before hiring them, the Journal tests to make sure their views are genuinely conservative (liberals need not apply) and that they will not be (in Phillips' words) "preoccupied with trying to find the middle of the road." Provocative opinionating, Phillips believes, "makes a stronger contribution...
...wisecracking tots. Parents on The Cosby Show are figures of calm authority, not boobs, and episodes revolve around the realistic trivia of everyday family life: Dad goes out to buy a new car, or a daughter tries to explain her bad grades. Such plots, of course, are simply a throwback to slice-of-family-life shows of the '50s and '60s like Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver, and Cosby's success may partly reflect nostalgia for those simpler old times...