Word: craze
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lottery craze seems certain to continue-at least until paying taxes is as much fun as playing the numbers. To fatten their jackpots and compete with neighboring Massachusetts, the states of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont are even considering combining their lotteries into a more tantalizing tristate pool. Last week lottery supporters in California gave state authorities the required petitions to put a lottery proposal to a November vote. In Florida, Lobbyist Jay Kashuk is leading a petition drive to repeal a state ban on lotteries...
...women's movement and the demographic bulge are the most obvious reasons behind what appears to be a media craze for sexy, older women. It is impossible to gauge exactly to what degree viewer appetite is being served, as opposed to how much is being created, but the sudden torrent of praise for older women brings to mind a statement by the late Flannery O'Connor. "To the hard of hearing, you shout and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures...
Nowhere has the "camo" craze been more noticeable than in Washington, where Redskins mania has been epitomized Running Back John Riggins' off-field military garb. Sales of military gear have "broken all records," according to Laura Loeb, manager of Washington's U.S. Military store. A city bus was even decorated in camouflage as a promotional stunt for the National Guard. Meanwhile in Hollywood, stars like Priscilla Barnes of Three's Company are donning camouflage and more exotic military wear. "I've sold flight coveralls to Raquel Welch," reports Jeff Stein, owner of the Camp Beverly Hills...
There are 800 songs in this remarkable volume, and naturally many of them deserve their place at the bottom of the trunk. Who but a historian will ever want to hear The Social Coach of All.the Fashionable Future Debutantes or Since Ma Got the Craze Espagnole? But the best remain fresh and audacious in form as well as style. Begin the Beguine was the longest popular song ever written: 108 measures, as against the standard 32. Night and Day has an A-B-A-B-C-B rhyme scheme, rarely heard before or since...
Helicopters, cars and computers dominate such action-adventure shows, as Magnum, P.I., Matt Houston, Trauma Center, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Cutter to Houston and The Fall Guy. Coptermania is the current craze. The air waves are bristling with blades, and gyrating, swooping chase sequences have become as common as the earthbound, four-wheeled variety. ABC's new series Blue Thunder (derived from the movie of the same title) features a mean, blackbottle fly of a police chopper that is essentially an aerial machine gun equipped with supersnooping devices. Next week CBS launches Airwolf, about a supersonic CIA attack helicopter...