Word: yesteryears
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...culture and climate of downtown Manhattan doesn’t exist anymore. Artist Dash Snow’s 2005 installation, “This Was Your Life,” takes the events of Rakowitz’s life as inspiration and tries to recreate the East Village of yesteryear. The piece is an amalgamated portrait of junkie life: a cheap leather couch held up on cinder blocks, a fake plastic tree, snakeskin boots, and a framed news clipping detailing the aforementioned events. The Saatchi Gallery now features this installation (along with other works by Snow) and calls...
...website’s “Most Emailed” list was a story about “celebrating the semicolon” on a subway poster. The piece, beginning with this most banal of leads, develops into a disconcerting death knell for the richer punctuation of yesteryear: prominent lefties like Noam Chomsky wax elegiac and crack wise about grammar, the implicit assumption being that people under seventy see the semi-colon and think, “what’s wrong with that comma...
...Keira Knightley. In France (and in more hipster-ish parts of the United States) it has even become popular to wear a scarf advocating Palestinian liberation, which I must say is very chic and somewhat ironic. The scarves of today, however, are very different than the weaselly scarves of yesteryear. They are large, usually in a bold graphic print with lots of fringe. This style could be hard to wear (cf. the Olsen Twins, especially Mary Kate, who loves wearing such scarves with no pants). The trick to wearing such a voluminous scarf is, once again, to master the strange...
...advent of professionalism in the mid-1990s. The rugby pitch has always been crowded, with 30 players and almost no space between the teams. That there was once a stronger link between enterprising attack and tries was largely due to the fact that the amateur players of yesteryear would tire to an extent that today's pros - bigger, faster, fitter - don't. Imagine rugby league adding two extra players to each side and changing the 10-m rule to a 0-m rule. The resultant stalemate would be a guide to what's happening now in rugby...
...attention has come a perceptible, if modest, surge in respect for the I-AA brand in general, a softening of the skeptics from which the Ivy League will also benefit. There are, after all, at least a dozen former Ivy Leaguers playing on Sundays, including four Crimson stars of yesteryear...