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It was as if they were caught in a time warp.

All that, juxtaposed with the world outside, can give the sense the store is caught in a time warp.

It was like being caught in a time warp, stepping back almost twenty years and finding nothing had changed.

That may seem comforting now, but if the characters ignore reality for too long they will be caught in a time warp.

It is not always a compliment to say that a restaurant is caught in a time warp.

Cuban television is caught in a time warp.

The furniture is still there in their modest apartment, which like many homes here feels as if it has been caught in a time warp.

The reason for this perverse result, I believe, is that our Cambodia policy is caught in a time warp.

Nearly every shop either is a work of art or is caught in a time warp of lace curtains and ancient advertisements.

It's as if Ms. Hinton's image, of a teenage girl who is somehow an authority on teenage life, has been caught in a time warp.

This fellow is caught in a time warp from-" He turned to Ohtsu and spoke briefly, getting a longer answer.

And he readily admits he may seem to be caught in a time warp of the 1950's, so genteel and polite is he.

Mr. Lisukov's comments contribute to the impression that Tambov is caught in a time warp.

I know this real heavy smoker . . ." It was as if Mooner had been caught in a time warp.

But if Caravela is caught in a time warp, it's one that stays true to the vitality of its ethnicity; dishes are florid and unabashedly zesty.

I know it sounds crazy, but I think Dan is caught in a time warp, living in a land where Richard Nixon is still president.

Indeed, some of Thuringia's cities look as if they had been caught in a time warp, preserving their pre-World War II character.

The problem seems to be that the very institution of the classical-music song or instrumental recital is caught in a time warp, a dated relic of the past.

The year was 1973, and Marty Goldman of Bellmore, N.Y., now a computer consultant, was caught in a time warp.

"Being a fashion designer is a repetitive job," said Bernhard Willhelm, the Belgian designer, who in recent years seemed to be caught in a time warp.

The band was caught in a time warp; they bounced between '50s doo wop, '60s Motown, and early-'70s funk and R&B.

West 14th Street is caught in a time warp in which local stores try to push the cheap merchandise of yesteryear to shoppers who want higher quality, albeit discounted, goods.

"Afghanistan is caught in a time warp," said Selig S. Harrison, an expert on Afghanistan at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

In struggling to redesign its post-cold war, post-Persian Gulf war military policy, the U.S. is caught in a time warp between the short run and the long run.

Sasha Sokolov's satirical novel, "Astrophobia," is a story by a Soviet emigre that is caught in a time warp and self-immolated by heavy-handed humor.

I am locked in a time warp, but I'm lost in several time warps.

They seem to be locked in a time warp but this has become their biggest selling point because, by remaining stubbornly unlike every other manufacturer, their instruments cannot fail to be distinctive.

It is locked in a time warp in which children can dream about breaking loose from their families and searching for lofty adventure, and adults can feel nostalgic about their lost dreams of childhood.

It sounds as if you are stuck in a time warp.

But movie humor seems to be stuck in a time warp.

He talked about Medicare people being stuck in a time warp.

He saw a team, a franchise, that was stuck in a time warp.

Services that enable deaf people to use the phone are stuck in a time warp.

Grade: C. This project is stuck in a time warp.

He didn't even realize it, but his place was stuck in a time warp."

Saint Laurent has been stuck in a time warp.

Austerity reigns and the restaurants are stuck in a time warp.

From Britain to Italy, many feel politicians are stuck in a time warp.

"But they are stuck in a time warp.

It was something like it was stuck in a time warp."

It's like being stuck in a time warp - time isn't moving forward the way it normally does."

I was stuck in a time warp in every sense, one that encompassed my part of Cliff Top as well.

"Feels like I've been stuck in a time warp," said Anderson in her blog entry.

Hollywood has become the remake/sequel factory; fashions and music are stuck in a time warp recycling first the 70s then the 80s now the 90s.

But last night Dr Who experts said Rambo may be stuck in a time warp.

Some of the most senior members and officials at the MCC were stuck in a time warp.

And though his body has aged in the traditional way, Horace's mind has ever since been stuck in a time warp.

Colts quarterback Jim Harbaugh must have thought he was stuck in a time warp on Sunday.

Yet, it continues to cater to outmoded, dubious tastes, with no spark at the top, instead of enlightening or elevating audiences who are stuck in a time warp.

A syndicated talk show host, Michael Savage of KSFO, described it as a "rotting stinking left-wing school" that reflects Marin, where "many people are stuck in a time warp."

"The N.R.C. and the industry seem to be stuck in a time warp of a quarter of a century ago, and are simply hoping that the problem goes away," Mr. Hirsch said.

The setting for the eponymous 1938 film starring Louis Jouvet and Arletty, the interior of this vintage café feels as if it was stuck in a time warp with its zinc counter, red velvet curtains and old piano.

"The United States is stuck in a time warp," said Riordan Roett, director of Latin American studies at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.