Its lyrics, about a couple escaping in a "Coup de Ville" in order to keep their unplanned baby, suggest sensitivity beneath the American bad-boy exterior, while the guitars, which peel out from across some distant horizon, render the band's bluesy rock spaced-out and minimal, neither wholly old-fashioned nor brand-spanking new.
But the story it tells is not a simple one: this was, to quote the title of Cro-Mags' first album, an "age of quarrel," which means that any celebration of those not wholly good old days will necessarily involve a certain amount of argument.
And in fact, there is enough first-rate stage talent rolling around in "Xanadu" to power a season of wholly new, old-school, non-jukebox musicals, if someone would get around to writing a few good ones.
In an essay about his father's Alzheimer's disease, which inspired the character of Alfred in "The Corrections," Franzen confesses, "I was inclined to interpolate across my father's silences and mental absences and to persist in seeing him as the same old wholly whole Earl Franzen".
Lila never wholly discards her old life in favour of the new.
These days, co-operation has supplemented, if not wholly replaced, the old rivalries among agricultural and urban users, and among the seven states.
However, sometimes we would turn our attention to relatively long stretches of life, and then, prizing continuity, we would phase in new and worthwhile undertakings that build upon, and do not wholly replace, the old.
And when he does, he travels to a wholly different remnant of old New York.
At the beginning of his presidency, with all the talk about the "pivot to Asia", he was less than wholly engaged with the old continent.
In the nineteen-nineties, Netanyahu was wholly taken up with old battles between Labor and his father's Revisionists — the tradition of Jabotinsky and Begin and the Greater Israel movement.
Miss Manners (nom de off time: Judith Martin) replied that she had recently written a history of Venice entitled "No Vulgar Hotel," with apologies to Henry James, whose heroine Milly Theale asserted the importance, when touring La Serenissima, of finding "some fine old rooms, wholly independent... but inodorous, where we shall be to ourselves, with a cook".
