Word: boom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole libretto of $4000. Since he wrote it, his fondness for the piece is forgivable. But his tearjerker about a Southern construction crew does not sing on the page. Bourjaily lovingly describes the eventual performance as a smash success; yet it is impossible to imagine how a "solid, bass boom" of a voice could save the line: "I'll see you in the morning, Buster. Pleasant dreams...
...nearly unimaginable numbers, Americans will be hard at work, puffing and stroking and grinding their teeth as they enjoy a game that seems to consist of swatting fuzz-covered rubber balls across a net. For some years now, this phenomenon has been comfortably referred to as the tennis boom. But the phrase simply no longer serves to describe the massive outpourings of cash and angst, the pop convolutions of status and commerce now going on in the once staid world of tennis. Even the word orgy, though it has some of the right resonances, sounds too temporary and frivolous...
There's a boom in war movies-or so it seems from the army of actors now before the camera. After providing cinematic sea battles in Midway earlier this summer, film makers are currently at work on A Bridge Too Far, Producer Joseph E. Levine's version of the battle of Arnhem in World War II, and Apocalypse Now, Director Francis Ford Coppola's vision of Viet Nam. Last week MacArthur, Hollywood's newest bombs-and-bullets epic, began production, with Gregory Peck starring as the general who made a famous return to the Philippines...
When Bob Dole was growing up in Russell on the flat plains of central-western Kansas, the town was enjoying an oil boom. It had started in 1923, the year he was born, after the "Carrie Oswald" well came in. The good times lasted into the '50s, but they bypassed the Doles. The family lived in a tiny, white frame house (since razed) on the north side-the wrong side-of the arrow-straight Union Pacific tracks that cut through the geometric grid of tree-lined streets...
Frozen yogurt is actually just the latest ferment in the general yogurt boom. Exalted in ancient writings as the food of the gods, yogurt has become popular in the U.S. only in the past decade. In 1975 Americans ate 200,000 tons of it, nearly $300 million worth-up from $25 million...