Word: bandwagons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frequently the Happy Hacker receives calls requesting advice on which computer to buy. And, just as the Hacker advises people to wait until all the potential presidential candidates have announced before jumping on a particular bandwagon, he recommends waiting until April 2 when IBM rolls out its new models before choosing a new personal computer. It's not that Apple's new entries are not impressive, but a little patience never hurts...
Corporate sponsors and celebrities have been slow to jump on the bandwagon. Former President Gerald Ford is still considering an offer to be the guest of honor, and the Supreme Court rejected the idea of holding a session in Philadelphia during the celebration. To date, television network coverage of the eight-to-ten hours of Philadelphia festivities is still being negotiated. But the planners are certain their program will sell. "It's no different from the Super Bowl or the Olympics," says Richard Rovsek, the committee's national marketing director...
Although the Connecticut native usually prefers culture to politics, he's tried his hand at both. In 1976, he jumped on the presidential bandwagon and joined the Carter press office, but even at the time he wasn't really very interested in politics. "I always thought that presidential campaigns were great theater," he explains...
...federal government may be hell-bent on preventing people under 21 from consuming alcohol, but Harvard isn't jumping on the bandwagon. College administrators say they designed the alcohol policy because they had to bring Harvard into compliance with the law, not because they had an overwhelming desire to cut down on undergraduate drinking. And officials call the policy a success, despite the fact that the campus is not notably drier...
...Avildsen's quest for the midline of American moviemaking keeps him from joining Stallone's exploitational bandwagon. He didn't want to take part in Rocky II, he said, because "I thought the script was really lame." Avildsen had hoped to make a Rocky trilogy: In the path not taken, Rocky would have become the populist mayor of Philadelphia in II and get tossed out because of a corruption scandal in III, ending up back in the ring where he started. Stallone decided Philadelphia City Hall was small-time; the Rocky-Rambo-Cobra hybrid which has terrorized movie screens near...