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Arthur Black After a man goes back and visits his boyhoodl town he discovers it wasn't the old home thot he wo.nted. It was his boyhood. Anon You don't have to be Lawirence Welk or Pat Boone ta know that the nostalgia business is alive and well, here at the butt-end of the twentieth century. Just take a long look around. Down the street where 1 work there's a cafe-cum-night club that could have corne right out of a Nick and Nora Charles mystery movie. The sound system features music from the thirties and forties. Smaky oid saxophone sere- nades. .... .vacas by legends like Rasemary Ciooney, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne and Frank Sinatra before lie got his Senior Citizen's card. It's Lounge Music. And it's back in a big way. The saine joint features old-fashianed drinks too. Such as.... .well, Old- Fashianed. Not ta mention h Manhattans, Margueritas and that quintessential Lounge Libation -- the Martini. I've. neyer been able ta fig- ure out the appeal of the Martini. Gin and Vermouth are two of the more taste-bud shattering formns that alcohol can take. Put thein together and you've got a drink that ought ta be banined under the Geneva Convention. But no. Martinis are back. And they're hot. Sa hot that the Internet is awash with Websites featuming thou- sands of wiid and wooliy cocktail recipes. Beats me. Maybe it's the olive. After ahl, the logo for the rock group U-2's world tour is a giant olive on top af a tooth- pick. Retro-fashion is big again taa. 1 keep running into guys wearing suits with lapels that bat colonies cauld nest under. The saine guys (I think they're trying ta came acrass as Rudolph Valentino incar- nate) favour those sl<inny ties that went out about 1957. KThe laista agoff er frilly little rocks that 1 haven't seen since I Love Lucy went off the air. *Long-playing records are back as well. Yupples seem ta have dlscovered that after spending umpteen thousand dollars on their state-af-the- art laser disc, digital extrava- ganzatic sterea system, what they really prefer ta hear is the scratchy, intiniate music they get froin gaod-old fash- ianed vinyl. Incontrovertible proof that we have completely lost it cul- tumally? 1 offer Exhibit A the resurgence of the cigar. Suddenly, ail the Beautiful People are appearing in pub- magazines lilke (2gar Aficionado and For Cigar Loyers OnIy featuring glossy full-colour photagraphs of Hollywood glitteratti like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Mel Gibson, Tam Cruise -- even Wayne and Janet Getzky -- ail puif- ing away on Havanas the size of French baguettes. 1 submit that when smol- derlng cigars become a fash- ion statement, a culture is in seiaus. free fall. What yau're seeing is a society sa bankmupt for new ideas that it's snatchlng up aid ones. But that's okay. Plus a change, as the French say. Reminds me of the stary about the coliege kid who answers a knock on the door. A middle-aged stranger is standing theme. "May I came in?" asks the stranger. 'This is the room I had when 1 went ta coliege." The kid iets the man in, and the man tours the maam, iost in memaies. "Yep" he miurmurs, -same aid raom. Saine aid furnitume. Saine aid view froin the window. Saine aid 'cioset." And he op'ens the closet door ta find a young woman, in a state of, as the French say, deshabille, caweing in the camner. "Uh, that's my sister" says the college kid. "Yep" says the visitor, "saine aid story." Recycle Please Hospital & High S( coordinate project Just in turne for the tradi- Salmers tionai Victoria Day weekend His Gaj (May 17-19), Memoriai and Mei Hiospital, Bowrnanviile High their gen School and a number of other project. * comrnunity arganizations focus an the responsible choice regarding use of alco- S u b hai amangst teenagers. The School is hosting the T h e week-iong event - - May 12-16 -- bilied as "Are You Ready for Weel the "Two-Foum Weekend" which includes assemblies,- skits, displays and deman- strations. The focus is on educating teens and assisting thein ta make ifom.med choic es about aicohol use on thie R J upcoming weekend and in the- future. It is a pmoject coordinated by the Cornmunlty Advisary Camrittee of Mernorial P.O.Bc Hospita's Board of Diectors. R.R.2 Howevem, as CAC chair- man, Frances Tufts explains,- %it is truly a coliabarative effort amangst the Hospital, the high schoai, the Hospital'sN Critical Gare Committee, E[I Durham Regian Police, the __ local Liquor ContraI Board of Ontario, the public health department, and community volunteers." Highiights include an assernbiy today ÇWednesday) 3DV featuring skits produced by Bwn students on the theme of the respansible choices egarding aicohol. Also- that day, offi- ciais from the Durham Regian Police wiii be on hand with a smashed car dispiay on the School's lawn. Officers wili expiain the patentiai couse- R.R. I quences of dinking and driv- W mng. LC Other bighiights include dispiays that encourage stu- bodachilvsusndents ta caiculate estimated I varletylo exapes an ta onrt the legamleand mtal o tse if acl isdued.io 'Thstudentcohl s havedai Tae te edth hsro- jae t," saMs.Tfts prha stet mepres senutativWes on sthe aranlzin comiteeo athe rai inghts and sug- gnei nsghe arnedsthe bestios ofamuchof ethe o gams o cent." ro Seasconets.a" of he ascommnity argnia tosf or trniam aoand ar tiipaetin h paet.adpriiaini h Thoe ie ortepajc a ihitiadoby taff In ethe Hoitai'Ernergeffncytdept menptalwha meprendeanding ant incresed nber o ainreasea meut ofuo mobjuiles saccient nolvutg teenagersacdnsaicoi tafferaal h sse t "aur mmitte hoinguewe ouid be aietaeate ain e ward ebe aodtis woie issuee,"s as Ms. Tufswo seversallocal usinse havea oaites fries tavbe dman aftemseahforonie houb rdiay. 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