Word: yesteryears
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...star is discovered, between acts, in his dressing room. He is wearing a Viking's helmet, complete with horns, over a wig of lank brown hair, a corset over a lace shirt. On his right hand there is a boxing glove. He claims, in the rich, ripe tones of yesteryear's provincial matinee idol, that he was about to do his imitation of Queen Victoria, but that he has forgotten what she looks like. The program's ever harassed star and manager, who just happens to be a very green, very agreeable frog, tells his guest that though he loves...
...team prepares to embark upon their annual journey to the Eastern championships with yet another undefeated season under their belt. Foregoing any of the dual meet stunts of shaving-down or even psyching-up that the Harvard team and their competitors have been employing this season, the team of yesteryear relied upon raw talent, pure and simple, for its successes. Training was much less intense back then for the likes of George Keim, Ted Fullerton, or Hess Yntema (who at one time was ranked No. 1 in the world); yet this was just the team's style--practice less...
Star Wars (1977). A space opera by George Lucas, redolent of yesteryear's comic books and movie serials, that is also Jung-at-heart in its cheerful evocations of basic, mythic stuff...
...obscure or weighty or downbeat as the director would have us believe. Altman is coming out foursquare in favor of life over death, love over hate, free will over fate. Though such optimistic feelings are admirable, there is no legitimate reason to cloak them in the arty mannerisms of yesteryear's avantgarde. Quintet has more highfalutin dialogue, pregnant pauses and overbearing symbols than the collected works of Maxwell Anderson; it has roughly as much content as a routine fortune cookie...
...slogan. Although his staff has had two years to mull over the matter, what they came up with was something called New Foundation. It foundered. Some people yawned; others were derisive. Mainly, everyone was magnificently uninspired. New Foundation just did not have the ring of the great slogans of yesteryear: New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier, Great Society. Still, the Carter dud was only a conspicuous example of the general anemia that has beset sloganeering in recent years. Some believe, for example, that the commercial practice of the art has fallen into something of a slump partially because advertising...