Word: nostalgias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afternoon sky. The roseate elegance of another dress showered with embroidered petals could seem, to the mannequin at the door, either an invitation or a challenge. To anyone looking in from outside, the dress draws the eye instantly and infuses the whole scene with its own tones of luxuriant nostalgia, the lasting afterglow of a perpetual sunset...
...BOMBERS CAME RUMBLING INTO TITUSVILLE OUT OF A FLAWLESS SKY (YOUR FAVORITE PAINT-AND-FENDER MAN COULDN'T SPRAY A BETTER ONE), AND ON SATURDAY 13,000 PEOPLE PAID TO WATCH THEM ALL FLY. IT WAS A SWEET, INNOCENT EXERCISE, FOR THE CROWD AS WELL AS THE PILOTS, AND NOSTALGIA CLUNG TO THE AIR LONG AFTER THE LAST LANDING...
...ruling New Society Movement (K.B.L.) had assembled at the Manila Hotel to submit the party's nominations for the presidency. As expected, Marcos' was the only name offered. Formalities concluded, the President entered the hall, borne triumphantly on the shoulders of loyal aides. With a touch of nostalgia, or perhaps superstition, he wore the same striped short-sleeved shirt jacket that he had worn to the 1965 K.B.L. nominating convention at which the stage was set for his first successful presidential bid. After the cheers of "Marcos still!" had quieted, the President stepped to the microphone and launched into...
...gyroplane for every family! Aluminum sidewalks! Houses made entirely of Bakelite! During the late 1920s and early '30s, a remarkable new aesthetic took hold: for an object to look modern, it had to look as if it had been retrieved from the future. Among a good many designers, sentimental nostalgia for the picture-book past --Gothic, Tudor, American colonial--was supplanted by an equally romantic infatuation with the future, nostalgia in reverse...
Among the younger designers, jokes tend to be about the future, but a future as it was conceived in a more hopeful past. It is a neat trick. This strain of the new-wave sensibility is an ironic mixture of nostalgia and contempt, simultaneously mock futurist and mock historicist. The allusions are to old television and B movies. At the Whitney, Dakota Jackson's UFO-shaped Saturn stool (1976) and R.M. Fischer's enormous, intimidating Max lamp (1983) are like fakey props from 1950s science-fiction films. Burton's saw-toothed aluminum chair (1980-81) seems to be a throne...