Word: bandwagons
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Representatives of more than 850 firms will hold interviews and throw, cocktail nparties for second and third-year law students over the next month in what has long been the largest single stop for the lightly lucrative employment bandwagon...
...about "the new Buddy Holly." By itself, that little jewel salvaged a mediocre Robert Gordon album. Now, Crenshaw has released his own 33 and all hell has broken loose among those in the know. References to the Byrds. Buffalo Springfield and (gasp) the Beatles have been made. Quickly, the bandwagon has become crowded. And people are beginning to realize: the kid really is that good...
...books, old TV shows, old horror and boxing movies, even old Walt Disney cartoons. Nonfiction bestsellers discreetly exploit the misery of movie stars, while Stephen King's novels borrow from E.G. comics and AIP movies. Even Broadway, long thought immune to adolescent fancies, has jumped on the trash bandwagon-at least in its musicals. Composers, librettists and directors ransack old Hollywood movies (42nd Street) and newer foreign films ("Nine"). They bow to rock 'n' roll for their subject matter (Dreamgirls) or their urgent tempo (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat). They find their heroines in comic strips...
...consensus was shaky. Some groups urged continued public education about the dangers of nuclear arms, but proposed no particular political action. At the other extreme, a few argued blithely for unilateral U.S. disarmament. Thronging along, too, were dozens of divergent factions seeking to hitch a ride on the antinuclear bandwagon to promote just about everything from Government day care funding to African development...
...Jumping on the political bandwagon" was a charged leveled not only at Conti and Heckler but at rally speakers and at 21 Republican congressmen who signed a letter supporting financial...