"Remember back in the days when kids didn't act so crazy?" the title song on the soundtracks wonders, simultaneously longing for the safety of childhood and a better, bygone time.
For Democrats this week, a flood of nostalgia evoked a bygone time in politics when Lew Wasserman, head of the MCA studios, Frank Sinatra and other figures in the old Hollywood establishment hobnobbed at the 1960 convention with John F. Kennedy.
But this season has underlined that he is a figure of a bygone time in MLS.
With its gracious doormen, free-flowing bars and ambient bonhomie, the private club is a portrait of a bygone time in publishing, when journalists pounded out copy all day and then gorged on canapés someone else paid for at night.
Observing Wall-E's surroundings, the audience gleans that, in some bygone time, a conglomerate called BnL (for "Buy N Large") filled the earth with megastores and tons of garbage.
"We should also note that protecting history has nothing to do with empathy for people in a bygone time and everything to do with maintaining the party's power and control today," he wrote in an email.
Sort of the bygone movies, bygone times, to create multiple inspiration boards for the W reader.
For collectors, such items are a tangible link to a bygone time when businesses that sold dog food on the Web were actually worth more than $100 million.
Recess is not a luxury from a bygone time.
But for many customers, a trip to Mr. Liu's is as much about political catharsis as culinary experimentation, an attempt to come to terms with a bygone time.
