Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mellow tones of both the land and the Glee Club will descend over the Yard tonight concurrently with the nostalgia-heavy Cambridge dusk to the delight of several thousand seniors, guests, and reunioning alumni...
...makings of an engaging kind of romantic movie that Hollywood seems to have lost its knack for. The setting is Old (turn-of-the-century) Vienna. The story: what happens when romantic love collides with fly-by-night love. The manner of telling is a blend of nostalgia and sad worldly-wisdom...
...Sloan had sold only six serious paintings. To stay alive he did magazine illustrating and taught art. Nowadays he makes a modest living from his painting, but it is his early pictures that sell. Sloan himself looks back on his "Ashcan" oils with an equal mixture of nostalgia and pride. "Young people won't realize," he says mildly, "how sweet . . . sweet and sad Manhattan was before Prohibition. The new skyline looks like a broken comb. We're the dirt between the teeth, unfortunately. And who wants to paint a street all strewn with automobiles...
...right, good show or bad, with his peculiar brand of vinegar. One obvious tip for those who make would-be "nostalgic" musical movies: the old arrangements for the old songs are fully as nostalgic as the melodies. Frequently the fancy new arrangements are terrible; always, they sabotage the nostalgia...
...west coast nostalgia merchants responsible for this picture had only one thing in mind--an audience with perfect vision. Grade school mentality is no of consequence and a speaking knowledge of English isn't necessary, but the color-blind fan is sunk without a hope. "The Swordsman" is shot full of more color than a Tartan plaid, and its plot is every bit as checkered...