Word: nostalgias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fried dough brings alive the nostalgia of a baseball game and a yearning for a time when eating fat-filled food was okay, just because it tasted good. Fried dough is soul food. The epiphany of tearing off a hot piece, tasting its tingly sweetness and licking the powdered sugar and cinnamon from sticky fingers permanently sidelines Snackwell...
Other alumnae share Bundles' nostalgia for the college that put them on more equal footing with Harvard men. While some feel that women now have a strong voice within Harvard, others fear that female undergraduates will lose a powerful advocate whose benefits many do not even recognize until long after graduation...
Other alumnae share Bundles' nostalgia for thecollege that put them on more equal footing withHarvard men. While some feel that women now have astrong voice within Harvard, others fear thatfemale undergraduates will lose a powerfuladvocate whose benefits many do not recognizeuntil long after graduation...
...past 25 years, served a useful purpose in reminding architecture's public that, yes, there was indeed a vast repertory of form and ornament on which early, messianic Modernism had turned its back. But it was mostly skin deep, and it kept turning into a kind of false nostalgia--a parallel to the rash of "heritage" fetishism in the 1980s...
There's honesty and energy in the film's flashbacking pursuit of that thought. But Chris' lasting luck is his wife Marion. Emily Watson plays her as a kind of dream nanny--knowing, ironic, tolerant of his erotic nostalgia and not as prim as she looks. She, and Metroland, finally make a good, subtle case for the bearable weightiness of middle-class being, for the higher morality of muddling through...