Despite some criticism that his presence on the mission was a political payoff, a waste of money and of doubtful scientific merit, the hero of yesteryear brought out the crowds again, cheering out of nostalgia and enduring respect as he was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on Oct. 29, 1998.
The Freudian nightmare takes an altogether more punishing twist in David Adjmi's smart and well-written new play "3C" (directed by Jackson Gay, at the Rattlestick), which refers to the cheap and cheerful Santa Monica apartment rented by two twenty-somethings, Linda Hannahh Cabell and Connie Anna Chlumskyky), in the coke-snorting, disco-dancing, let-it-all-hang-out yesteryear of 1978.
That means "bug juice," the sugary color-enhanced punch drink of yesteryear, is out; water is in.
If you think of the harp as a tame relic of yesteryear, check out Castañeda's blazing fingerwork and percussive slapping on this jazz-inflected joropo, a style of music that comes from Colombia's plains.
What hope do Orwell High School's current crop have, you might well wonder, when the valedictorians of yesteryear have turned out to be such charmers?
If that really is the case, then I choose to make like the iron-girdled grandmothers of yesteryear and see out my final decades in a cloud of friends and fag smoke.
Something where the Foot aren't just cannon (ahem, nunchuck) fodder, where Shredder's mysticism of yesteryear gets teased out, where his crime syndicate isn't populated by stooges.
"Special Interests," Joe Sutton's play now being staged by the Working Theater at the Louis Abrons Art Center of the Henry Street Settlement, is a labor play far removed from its forebears, a play in which the villains and heroes that were so clearly identifiable in the conflict dramas of yesteryear turn out to be decidedly less easy to categorize.
Working-class people are not like the romantic, politicised proletariat of yesteryear, handing out pamphlets down the pub and joining unions and whatnot.
Someone was telling me about a start-up where the fabulously rich who travel a lot can live in an apartment and have all the amenities of a hotel...while models who made their money strutting on the catwalks of yesteryear are out to save the world.
