Word: bandwagons
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...carrying the kind of meanings that abstraction could not convey, and these were picked up by a second generation of artists in the mid- 1970s, such as Rainer Fetting and Helmut Middendorf. By the mid-1980s the Neue Wilde, or new fauves, had become such a market bandwagon, so copious a fount of self-important rhetoric, that the rediscovered anguish of the postwar German soul ran some risk of joining the death of Little Nell as one of those things one could not read about without laughing...
...bravura performance drew a flood of flowers and yellow telegrams that swept to Capitol Hill in support of the man who starred at his own show trial. The "Olliegrams" were stacked on the witness table, as though shielding the colonel from any hostile questions. Jumping on the Ollie bandwagon, two Republican Congressmen interrupted the proceedings to criticize Counsel Liman for being too "prosecutorial." In fact, Liman approached North with unusual restraint, probing more for revelations about his superiors than to slash at his story. Explained Liman later: "This is not a trial. We're not handing down verdicts. These hearings...
...then the legend was well away. J. Carter Brown, the director of Washington's National Gallery of Art, leaped onto the bandwagon with a scissor-legged agility worthy of Tom Mix, committing his museum to an exhibit of some 125 of the 240 pencil drawings, watercolors and temperas of Helga. Billed as "a set of fascinating documents in the odyssey of the American artistic achievement," with a first printing of 250,000 catalogs, le cirque Helga opens this week and will, of course, be jam-packed until late September, when it begins its progress to Boston, Houston, Los Angeles...
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...