"We made a choice for it to feel retro," said Moore in an interview, "even though it's a completely different world [than Battlestar], we are looking back".
"This party's very retro," said David Patrick Columbia, an uptown insider, whose New York Social Diary appears on the Internet.
"I cannot stand the fact that so much rock music is ridiculously retro," says Savage.
"It's not retro," says Chris Bangle, BMW's chief of design, who supervised the Mini project.
Maybe that's because they spent so long playing with pastiche, drawing from the catalogues of artists who were cool for being retro (say, Genesis, for example), authentic (Justice) or ironic (MIMS), but there's a quiet confidence that oozes from many a track.
A retro sign saying "Pussycat" hung over the six lanes, right about where editors of the foreign desk once discussed war coverage.
"The last thing we want to do is make a retro Cadillac," says Leonard Casillo, director of Cadillac brand character design.
"They wanted to do a retro movie," he said last week.
"We're not going to be a retro brand," Smithers said.
"This is going to be like a retro election," she says.
