Word: bandwagons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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June 9: As he waited for the five Democratic candidates, Paul Kirk mused that even the Pope has more divisions than the Democratic Party chairman. For weeks Kirk had been talking of leading a bandwagon of perhaps 400 super- delegates to the front runner. But after two days of working the phones, Kirk had only 208 commitments. If only Mike Dukakis had caught fire. Instead, he had staggered across the finish line more than 600 votes short of nomination...
Donato represented his class well Saturday, sitting on top of the scoring bandwagon with two goals and an assist. The senior class got a solid effort from goalie John Devin, who had turned in a tepid performance against Clarkson in the ECAC semifinal game Friday, but recorded 19 saves Saturday...
...beguiling fantasy. After two decades of disorder, the Democrats finally thought they had invented a system that would create an all-but- certain nominee after the 20 state primaries on March 8, which will choose more than 30% of the convention delegates. Super Tuesday seemed perfect for a bandwagon bonanza: the winner would roar out of the South with enough momentum to coast to the nomination. Finally, the party would anoint its standard- bearer early enough and end the intraparty bloodletting soon enough so that he might carry something other than his home state and the District of Columbia come...
...such enormous cultural success is that they have been synchronized with a galactic quirk which dictates that every four years there must be an extra day in the calendar. These extra-long years, called leap years, are perfect for cramming in one whole extra day of commercials onto the bandwagon of monster events. Furthermore, by staging the Olympics in the same year as Presidential elections, each feeds on the hysteria generated by the other until the American public is convinced that something important is actually happening...
There can be adverse reactions to these champagne clothes, and not everyone is hopping aboard Lacroix's bandwagon. His outfits are not for the dress-for- success crowd -- only for those who have succeeded. Then there are the enthusiasts of top ready-to-wear designers like Jean-Paul Gaultier and Claude Montana and several of the Japanese, all intellectual, all looking toward futuristic silhouettes. To them, Lacroix is a crashing irrelevance. Alan Bilzerian, owner of two au courant shops in Massachusetts, who heavily backs the Japanese, writes Lacroix off briskly: "It's like a foul ball; he hit it over...