"I remember how Jim Watts [the Reagan administration's Interior secretary] galvanized the environment movement," he recalled nostalgically.

In another song, "Being Boring," Mr. Tennant nostalgically recalls his bohemian college days in the early 1970's.

"People weren't even asking about the price," Mr. Winderbaum recalled nostalgically.

The old "New Basics," one recalls nostalgically, was exclamatory and feminine.

His friends bully and assault him, as Horace realizes that his childhood was not as pleasant as he would nostalgically recall.

"There are times when Ulf can control the puck, and no one can take it from him," Neilson recalled almost nostalgically.

By September, most of the students had returned to class and were nostalgically recalling their time spent in Mr. Holztman's pattern-happy world.

"It was in The Denver Post right under Nixon's picture, in color," he recalled nostalgically.

Unemployment then stood at 1 percent and France was in the midst of what is now nostalgically recalled as "les trentes glorieuses" - the 30 glorious postwar years.

"I was down on the ground, hurt, when I first saw Jay," Thatcher recalled nostalgically.