Word: craze
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...clove craze began on the West Coast around 1980. Now, says Beatrice Schwalbe, 19, a former two-pack-a-day kretek smoker from Costa Mesa, "anywhere you find a bunch of teen-agers, you'll find clove cigarettes." New York City Importer George Georgopulo reports that sales of the two leading brands--Jakarta and Djarum--have jumped 40% in the past year alone...
...this year. "Ten years ago, it was sissy to use a blow dryer. Now policemen and truck drivers use them." The new adventurers in the skin trade see it as an obvious outgrowth of, or perhaps they would prefer to say a smooth supplement to, the health-and-fitness craze...
When Harvard students steal, things are different. Shari Rudavsky's article "From Roads to Roorhs" (11/21/84) reports "a new craze to break up the first semester freshman blues--stealing street signs." It is designed for "bored" freshman who find "Harvard isn't quite what it was cracked up to be." Signs are now "a symbol of status...you ain't cool unless you've got a sign," states one freshman. Another concedes. "It is stenling, so by definition I am a thief," but another concludes that "It's the thing to do." Rudavsky notes that freshman proctors seem "unconcerned...
...Gaultier has seized and made salable the dithering extravagances of London street fashion. Hot colors over black? Short skirts? Check out Sprouse for all that. He was hiking up hemlines and pouring Day-Glo over the fashion palette while women were still trying to figure out what the Japanese craze was all about...
...craze born in the ghetto becomes a whirling cash dance