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...allowed at all. British researchers have called for the abolition of the sport. In 1983 the American Medical Association carried an article in its journal stating that "the principal purpose of a boxing match is for one opponent to render the other injured, defenseless, incapacitated, unconscious . . . Boxing, as a throwback to uncivilized man, should not be sanctioned by any civilized society...
When it comes to using TV, Ferraro is a curious throwback. Many new-style politicos in both parties disdain routine congressional chores, trying instead to make their reputations-and win votes-over the tube. Everyday in the House, blow-dried young Congressmen rise to give mini-stump speeches that are carried on cable TV and often picked up at home by local news shows. "Ferraro is no photo-op type," says Christopher Matthews, an aide to O'Neill...
...Alfred Regnery, director of juvenile programs for the Justice Department: "It recognizes that juvenile crime is serious business that needs to be dealt with seriously." But others were appalled. New York University Law Professor Martin Guggenheim, who handled Martin's Supreme Court appeal, denounced the decision as a "throwback to pre-20th century law," when children had few rights. Some critics thought it was especially unfortunate that the high court upheld the New York laws since Guggenheim had convinced two lower federal courts that it was being used as a vehicle to impose punishments on unconvicted youngsters. Martin...
Chris Cain's The Stone Boy, a touching--if somewhat contrived view of a small town Montana family struck by tragedy--is unmistakably an ideological throwback to Ordinary People. Both films present pictures of ostensibly cohesive, happy families; both revolve around the same tragic insident--the accidental death of an older son--and in the process both depict fairly typical people in the throes of crisis...
...nouvelle cuisine (which, incidentally, it dismisses as passe) and as defiantly déjà vu as Private Lives, Miss Julie and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (allusions to which snake deviously through the plot). On its dazzling surface, The Real Thing is a throwback to the comedies of Oscar Wilde, Noël Coward and Philip Barry. This is love among the leisure classes, in which aristocrats of style spend their time polishing epigrams and tiptoeing into one another's penthouse souls. Stoppard's characters have always been able to skate on their plays...