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Nostalgia
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Nostalgia
Combray
village of narrator and family. [Fr. Lit.: Remembrance of Things Past]
Give My Regards to Broadway
singer sends well-wishes to home town. [Am. Pop. Music: Fordin, 531]
Happy Days
TV series viewed 1950s America through tinted lenses. [TV: Terrace, I, 337–338]
Krapp
passes the time by listening to tapes on which he had recorded his earlier experiences and reflections. [Br. Drama: Beckett Krapp’s Last Tape in Weiss, 244]
My Ántonia
book in which author recalls her precious child-hood years. [Am. Lit.: Magill I, 630–632]
ou sont les neiges d’antan
“Where are the snows of yesteryear?” [Fr. Lit.: Ballade des Dames du temps ladis, “Villon” in Benét, 1061]


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THE ZOMBIEPHILES--that odd cohort of nerds, video game addicts, and mullet-headed grindhouse nostalgists who have made the flesh-eating zombie a central figure of modern culture--know all about chewed kidneys, shambling ghouls, moldering flesh, barricaded doors, deserted streets, and the all-important bullet to the brain.
FLICK BACK: They're still wrangling over who has the hottest hidden belly button to play Jeannie, but '60s nostalgists can anticipate Nora Ephron's film version of ``Bewitched,'' with Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell, to be released in July.
The curved walls of the Marseille skatepark kept the dream alive for many a transition nostalgist through the lean years of the early '90s.
 
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