Word: retro
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STRONG HUSBANDS A study of senior citizens presented at the Gerontological Society of America has a rather retro conclusion: husbands and wives live longer when the wife has a strong man to lean on emotionally and he is not as dependent on her. Among couples who leaned equally, wives had nine times the death rate and husbands four times the death rate of more traditional couples. As gender roles change, though, the findings may not hold true for aging baby boomers and Gen-Xers...
...with expensive frills like power doors. Overproduction has forced the company to offer incentives of up to $4,000, tempting a loss on every sale. Chrysler even bungled its hottest product. There wasn't enough production capacity to meet demand for the wildly successful PT Cruiser, a hybrid retro minivan/station wagon. So even as auto-industry sales surged to a historic high last summer, Chrysler was beginning to hemorrhage...
...there's a thought: the open office is retro. --With reporting by Valerie Marchant/New York City
...lilting vocals washed over a simple background of a solo piano. It moves on quickly to Euro-sounding dance tracks such as "How Far" and the samba-tinged "Taking Off For France." The album does take a recess from beat-heavy percussion and veers towards further flirtation with retro-lounge electronic tunes, with Cracknell voicing her lyrics breathily in a manner not unlike Dusty Springfield. But the closing track, "Anymore," ends the album with more bleeps and heavy backbeats. While it's the strongest track in the album, it still fails to hold one's attention as anything...
...series of renderings of In-N-Out outlets from bygone eras in the colorful-blur style of that great populist artist, Leroy Neiman. On the way to the bathroom, a display case of souvenir merchandise - not sold here, please order by phone or fax. (No web site; how wonderfully retro!). I picked up a catalog...