Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of University Dining Services yesterday acknowledged that featuring "Fifties" nostalgia nights in river houses two weeks ago reflected insensitivity to certain minority concerns, but disagreed on the seriousness of the offense...
...second incident was clearly unintentional and very subtle and resulted from the kind of insensitivity in which we can participate without meaning to offend anyone. It involved the posting of fliers in some of the house dining halls, inviting students to join in a night of nostalgia celebrating the 50 s. The flier described the 50 s as a time when "...living was uncomplicated. That time of the fabulous fifties when all you had to do was shine your Chevy, pick up your favorite girl and enjoy!" The menu for the evening included "grilled McCarthy burgers...
...economic policies from the 1920s, its deco furniture from the '30s, its favorite movies from the '40s, its short haircuts from the '50s, its dirty- dancing music from the '60s and its galloping egotism from the '70s, why shouldn't the flashiest tour in Los Angeles mix camp nostalgia with giddy grave robbing? And why shouldn't a necromantic like Greg Smith, Grave Line's ! "director of undertakings" and occasional tour guide, make some clean money washing his Forest Lawndry in public? Grave Line is a haunt and a howl for children of all ages and no taste...
...that, and a painter of unassailable, though uneven, greatness! Courbet has become one of the titans of radical nostalgia. There cannot be a political artist alive who does not dream of having Courbet's sweeping breadth of access to the public. "Courbet Reconsidered," the show of 97 paintings and drawings, organized by the art historians Sarah Faunce and Linda Nochlin, currently at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City (and scheduled to open at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in February), is not, and could not have been, a "complete" show. But it is the first attempt by an American...
...WONDER YEARS (ABC) The nostalgia is ladled on a bit thick, but this wry, affectionate comedy about a twelve-year-old's angst in the late '60s has wit and insight -- and the most believable family scenes...