"The Left Handed Gun," with Paul Newman as an ignorant Billy the Kid in the sex-starved, male-dominated Old West, has the same kind of violent, legendary, nostalgic material as "Bonnie and Clyde;" its script, a rather startling one, was adapted by Leslie Stevens from a Gore Vidal television play.
High in the RCA Bldg., some writer, some toiling, ink-stained, coffee-stoted wretch has pecked this out on his typewriter, manufacturing pathos out of standard material, nostalgic toots on a train whistle.
Both world wars provide rich material for nostalgic telly, from Blackadder to Dad's Army.
The music, like some of the material, had a nostalgic twang -- another reminder that these jokes were not quite as fresh as they once were.
Her recent GIF series entitled Further Abstract uses graph paper, a material with great nostalgic value for anyone who can remember scribbling out geometry problems in their school days.
This flashback structure by Mr. Wright ("Vincent in Brixton," "His Dark Materials") allows for a nostalgic look at the movie business when everything was new.
An unpredictable mix of Expressionism, Primitivism, Symbolism and political allegory, his earthy paintings have one eye on war, pestilence and nostalgic memories, the other on the formal and material possibilities of painting itself (Johnson).
Alive (2012) was noted for being more "experimental" than their previous materials, with "Bad Boy" described as "nostalgic".
Some of the artists fill suitcases with nostalgic miscellany; some use them as surfaces or art material; others engage in inventive staging to convey social or political messages.
Ms. McGarry gets a lot of mileage out of more contemporary material, including what might be categorized as nostalgic middlebrow pop.
Mathew Fuerst, a student at Juilliard, is influenced by Copland, and, like Copland, he so rigorously controls his material that it never verges on the nostalgic or the sentimental.
