Word: crazed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have become cult favorites, but Cayce in fact had many misses in his predictions. What gave him his credibility was a more limited but very special talent, the ability to diagnose illnesses of persons many miles away. Many Americans ?most, the optimistic would say ?still find the craze for prophecy foolish and even bankrupt. Others may enjoy the predictions for what many of them are?a parlor entertainment. But millions, obviously, need reassurance about the future...
...older brother and sister-as a child model when she was four. Her father had died when she was three. When she was twelve, she appeared in her first movie, Rock, Rock, Rock, a cheapie made in Brooklyn to cash in on the rock-'n'-roll craze of the '50s. Whatever its demerits, the film projected Tuesday as the archetypal nymphet, Shirley Temple with a leer. "The girl I generally played was a little whorish teen-ager who would sleep with anybody, and yet has a childlike quality," says Tuesday...
...about this point, any non-Brazilian begins to wonder what in the world is going on. The answer: capoeira (pronounced cap-oh-wcry-rah), a combination of folk dancing and self-defense that has become a national craze. Along the beaches, in parks and at festivals all over Brazil, enthusiasts leap, fade, swing and sing in the country's first truly national folk manifestation. Capoeira pervades nearly every aspect of Brazilian life, from pop songs and poetry to sport and even formal receptions for state visitors. It resembles a super-athletic ballet, its deadly blows precisely calculated to miss...
...Bowdler" intelligent enough to attend a performance of Hamlet should realize that "Polack" is simply the Polish word for "Pole" and not the ethnic slur the Polack joke craze has made...
...first Parcours (French for course) track was opened in Zurich four years ago and the idea spread quickly. The craze has already oozed over the Swiss borders; in addition to the 180 courses in Switzerland, there are 200 in West Germany and 13 in Austria...