Word: retro
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Time capsules are a literal anachronism. Invoking a kind of space-age enthusiasm, these items, which we have sent out into the world to transcend time, paradoxically end up being more retro than anything we could have intentionally conceived. Such was the case, at least a little, with the opening of "Time Boxes 2000" at Brandeis University...
...theatricality. But perhaps this inclusivity of concepts is the very representation of art in time. The millennium, artificial construct that it is, provides nonetheless an opportunity for retrospection. And Time Boxes 2000, as a self-contained survey of some issues in the last 25 years of art, is retro at its best...
Director Younger is only 27, and possibly just a tad retro. If he were really on cynicism's cutting edge, wouldn't Seth have a dotcom and be frantically kiting an IPO? Maybe not. Maybe that's the sequel. In the meantime, we have this curiously intense, alertly principled, refreshingly uncynical movie to savor...
Spring's calling for a riveting game of mothball ping pong. Throw discriminating palates and post-lobotomy brain stems to the wind, sweethearts, because garish is back in. Time to raid mum's closet for a taste of retro ugliness...
...Enough star Adam Rich. The shoestring operation went bust in 1997, but Eggers landed at Esquire (he also published a dispatch on Cuba in TIME last year). The job left him "burned out," he says, on cheesecake photos, service journalism and celebrity doings. His next project was so retro it's hip: an idiosyncratic literary journal, a magazine that is not a magazine...