Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boom lasts forever, and this spring may be remembered as the moment when the art-auction frenzy of the late 1980s began its decline. In the big sales in New York City over the past two weeks, despite freakish prices for two great paintings, the auction market was showing ominous signs of instability. For Van Gogh and Renoir, in Japan, there was no ceiling. For other artists, including some highly promoted contemporary ones, the floor was shaky...
While a Japanese collector pays $82.5 million for a Van Gogh and $78.1 million for a Renoir, many lesser sales fall short as the frenzied auction boom hits some bumps...
...movement that started in the gym has blossomed into sexy, long-stemmed silhouettes. Tights, body stockings and leggings are the first fad of the '90s, starting a boom in the hosiery business and restoring septuagenarian Italian designer Emilio Pucci to the top of the international hit parade...
...from the road to see and adjust the shift levers. If a cyclist tries to change gears while standing up to climb a hill, the chain -- and rider -- can slip. "Gear fear" is the main reason why "so many of the ten-speeds that were bought in the cycling boom in the '70s are hanging in garages," says Fred Zahradnik, technical editor of Bicycling magazine. But with new index shifting systems from companies like Shimano of Irvine, Calif., he explains, "you just push the button, hear it click, and you're in gear." Shimano's system uses special teeth...
With no bona fide contender to write about, Yepsen lobbed in a column two weeks ago on the virtues of neighboring Nebraska's telegenic Senator Robert Kerrey. In the great political quiet, the piece created a sonic boom. Kerrey, 46, an adequate Governor and untested Senator, is now the toast of political pundits and television interviewers. They dwell less on his vague achievements in government than on his travels, his Medal of Honor from Vietnam, his mastery of a restaurant business and the fact that he lured Hollywood's sexy superstar Debra Winger to his bachelor quarters in Lincoln. Those...