Word: redux
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...from to shirts to hats to playing cards both that year's reunion slogan. "The Great Comeback of '54." When the Class of 1956 held its reunion in 1981, even trash cans and license plates accompanied the usual frisbees and towels on the list of trinkets bearing the MCMLVI REDUX slogan...
...will be on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle. " It is also true that beneath its mellow exterior, San Francisco has an edgy streak, an undercurrent of jitters. Perhaps it is because of the minor temblors that occasionally rattle the city, raising fears of a 1906 redux. Perhaps it is because many people come to San Francisco to flee their pasts. Whatever the reason, a great many San Franciscans are unable to go with the flow. "There's an inordinate number of people with serious mental-health problems," says Social Services Director Edwin Sarsfield. The Zodiac killer...
...year's visit to Europe is a return trip. "Fewer innocents are going abroad," says Adele Klate, owner of Los Angeles' Gulliver's Travels. "They know the small hotels, the little restaurants. They're not buying the highly touted places any more." The American tourist redux is more worldly in his activities and tastes, particularly when it comes to food and wine. He does not recoil from snails, eels and sweetbreads as he once did, orders tortellini ai funghi porcini with authority, and often chooses a vintage he knows from back home...
...Beatles redux? Hardly. Menudo, the objects of all that adolescent yearning, are well-behaved puertorriqueños who sing in their native Spanish and play no instruments. The hundreds of thousands of U.S. fans typically are Hispanic junior high schoolers, like the heartthrobs themselves: five Puerto Rican boys, ages 13 to 15. And menudo, which means "small change" in Spanish, is not really a band or even, to use the '60s phrase, a combo. It is a clever marketing idea: the boys are mere employees of a promoter who replaces each one before he turns 16. "Menudo...
...coke subculture and its sympathizers, the laws against this latest drug of choice are regarded as little more than a nuisance, Prohibition redux. "I wasn't running out and killing or robbing people," says Margaret,* 30, a saleswoman for a clothing manufacturer who for two years sold small amounts of coke to support her habit. "I assumed the law-enforcement people had something better to do with their time than to come into my house and arrest me." Margaret, never caught, was right about police priorities: overburdened big-city forces (and prosecutors and courts) are more concerned...