Word: bandwagons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fashionable department stores have climbed on the outsize bandwagon. Bullock's, a pricey Western chain of 22 stores, has moved the large-size Bullock's Woman boutiques in most of its outlets from obscure floor locations to splashier quarters. Since 1985, sales in the shops have steadily increased. Bullock's has now made the boutiques into a separate store division. In March a 3,000-sq.-ft. Bullock's Woman store, devoted to sizes 14 to 24, opened in a Las Vegas mall. The retailer plans to open at least two more stores of the same type...
...another era. More teams are wearing the exact same uniforms both home and on the road, except the road uniforms are tinted gray instead of a team color. This has been the case for years with half of the teams in baseball, but more teams have joined the bandwagon in the past few years...
...came the more localized Bammies, or Bay Area Music Awards, honoring similarly lackluster of musicians from the once-trendsetting city of San Francisco. Other cities of equally dubious musical importance followed suit. Last week, Boston, a city whose own popular music heritage is schizophrenic at best, jumped on the bandwagon, so to speak, with its own ceremony, cleverly titled The Boston Music Awards. Granted, Boston's music scene is vital enough to deserve recognition, and some of its local artists may even be of national caliber, but the idea of adequately acknowledging every musician who ever played or was born...
After his stay at the Kennedy School, Pippert says he plans to jump back on to the bandwagon of political journalism. "I'm a bit out of touch with the American political scene," he acknowledges, "The last election I covered was the general election in Israel two years...
...dramatic monologue is probably the hardest thing an actor can master; the fact that only one of the three actors in Faith Healer can get it right should serve as a warning to others eager to get on the soloshow bandwagon...