Word: throwback
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...tightly-knit, spiritual community and not a priesthood divorced from the congregation, the Boston Archdiocese has become increasingly reactionary. Instead of opening its doors to abuse victims, Church officials have withdrawn. And Cardinal Law’s overarching entanglement between matters of finance and morality seems like a throwback to the days of the medieval church, when the fiscal and moral power of the church led to the impunity and ethical depravity of the elite clergy...
...image of private investigators in Hollywood has segued over the years from Philip Marlowe to Charlie's Angels. Real-life gumshoe ANTHONY PELLICANO, however, is a throwback to the noir era; he has handled cases for Michael Jackson, Sylvester Stallone and Farrah Fawcett, below, and once described his job as making people "remember why they're afraid of the dark...
...time, rock-’em, sock-em throwback football. Lambeau Field stuff...
Down 17-14 against Northeastern in the fourth quarter on Oct. 19, Harvard attempted a throwback pass after sophomore quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick pitched the ball to Morris. The play was good for a first down, but was called back due to a holding penalty, and forced the Crimson to eventually punt...
...conspiratorial nature of the documents and the arms caches are enough to raise a security threat. The Farmers' Force claims to be the "war cabinet" of the "interim government of the South African Boer Republic." Their aim, according to Document 12, is to form a white, Afrikaner state, a throwback to the republics of the Boer War era - meaning that all blacks and Asians would be "chased out." The group also branded Afrikaner politicians, such as former President F.W. de Klerk - who negotiated the transition to democratic rule with Nelson Mandela - as traitors for "selling out" the Afrikaners. Crazy...