Word: retro
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...missile attacks - the focus of National Missile Defense remains protecting U.S. borders from attacks by intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). And for all of President Bush's efforts to present this as a new weapons platform for new times, it's hard to avoid seeing that missile shield as well, retro...
...multinationals, elementary schools and junior athletic leagues took over and un-cooled the button. They became big and plastic, and their messages lost out to corporate hype and photo badges of 8-year-old softball players. Until now. Yes, the classic aluminum beauties are back. Kitschy slogans and retro cartoons decorate the small, round pins that reign again on the streets of fashion-conscious England and Holland. But no country has embraced the retro buttons?and their message of '80s-style youthful exuberance?as completely as Japan. Tokyoites have flocked to purchase kanbacchi, sporting their own distinctive anthems on their...
...only rarely has the legacy of avant-garde experimentation been passed down. Rei Kawakubo's promising protégé Junya Watanabe is one of the few who lives up to expectations. He showed a futuristic punk look in Paris that most critics loved though it struck some as retro. Even Miyake's Takizawa, one of the most successful of the younger generation, has not strayed far from the established aesthetics of the house. Ask a European or an American fashion editor to name a fresh, up-and-coming Japanese face and you get only silence. A Japanese fashion editor...
...best translations of a beloved movie to the stage ever. Most of Brooks' famous lines and bits are here, including the memorable Springtime for Hitler production number, staged by Stroman with goose-stepping pizazz. The new songs--Brooks wrote the music and the lyrics--are a sprightly retro pastiche, ranging from mock Fiddler on the Roof, to mock Astaire and Rogers, to mock Bavarian beer hall. There's a chorus line of old ladies with walkers, a flock of pigeons doing the Nazi salute and more gay jokes than have crossed a stage since Liberace. The show delivers such...
When I walked into the Carpenter Center on April 5, I was greeted by a horde of bespeckled sophisticates, a handful of retro twenty-somethings, and a lascivious old French man who gave me two martinis. I felt as though I had been transported into another...