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Hey there cool cats and kittens it's time once again for the hippest retro video feature out there in TV land. This week we want you to stop worrying and love the bomb. Yes, we are going back to the hot days of the cold war with Donald Fagen's part love story, part duck and cover, video for the song 'New Frontier'.  In the video a sly young man, who looks a lot like Mayer Hawthorne, tries to score with his date in his families bomb shelter. Let me tell you this, our lover boy did better with the threat of mutual assured destruction in regards to trying to seduce a woman than I did. I once talked to a girl about how the fate of the world was hanging by a string and if war was to break out we would all be atomized and she ran home crying. Seems that talking about the end of the world is not a good strategy to use if you want to get to third base.  Here is your history: "New Frontier" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Donald Fagen for his debut stu...