Word: throwbacks
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Although her clients are mostly "new" Hollywood, Mengers, 36, is a throwback to the more flamboyant, flesh-peddling days of the studio moguls. At 5 ft. 2½ in. and 160 Ibs., usually billowing in a sea of muumuus and caftans, she is sometimes seen as a cross between Mama Cass and Mack the Knife. She has the soft, breathy voice of a little-bitty girl, the vocabulary of a mule skinner and the subtle approach of a Sherman tank. She often compares herself to Eve Harrington, the calculating and ruthless climber in All About Eve. In fact, a character...
...birth. He never labors his allegory, or cheapens his surrealism into fairy tale moralism. The method is a radical one, paradoxically, in that it hearkens back to an earlier age of the novel (and this must be a good thing) by working with the intensity of dramatic scenes--a throwback to Dostoyevsky. By taking diverse experience and building situations wherein he can forge these loose elements into a crystallized, jewelled point of metaphor, Rhodes is externalizing in a very sophisticated way. Episode after episode with the Sledges operates in this way; so does the whole trip through The City...
...neighbors' need for community ritual, approving their matings and swappings and supplying them with the necessary sports, parties, and outings. His nemesis, and the figure closest to a hero that Updike could then manage, embodied freedom and real earthiness, wells of love for individuals. He was, in short, a throwback to a time when a man could build his life straight up from the ground. He only appealed to his friends' and ladies' private affections, ignoring their needs for social exposure, and was thus destroyed. Unfortunately, the novel went with him. He posed no real alternative; the narrative tension...
...United States Military Academy (West Point) is set on a 16,000-acre plot of land on the west bank of the Hudson River. To many it is an anachronism, a throwback to a straiter-laced era of American values, an institution out of time and place. Most college students, if they think of it at all, shudder at the though of wearing uniforms, being forced to follow a rigid schedule, saluting officers, participating in mandatory parades and formation. But to the cadets of West Point it is something very much more: a place where you get the discipline...
...Livingston Seagull is at my throat again.' " But after a morning with Bach and his Widgeon, Foote saw the makings of a much larger article. "You can forgive Jonathan almost anything when you deal with Bach," he says. "He's an extraordinary man, in some ways a throwback to a simpler America, in some ways like the youth in the counterculture, reaching out for unorthodox ways of knowing himself and the world...