Word: crazed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 50s, Cesar and Nestor Castillo (Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas), two Cuban brothers, arrive in New York dreaming of success as musicians. America finds itself in the midst of the mambo craze, and the Castillos intend to be part...
Standing amidst more than a hundred poetry mavens crowded into a tiny room at the Bookcellar Cafe in Porter Square, Ryc McIntyre jumps into the audience, shouting at them, looking his judges in the eye. It's all part of the poetry world's latest craze: the Slam...
Once one gets into the mode of identifying BAD--defined as the huge gap between appearance and dismal reality--it comes easily. Some national BAD ideas; the "Buy American" (i.e. "Don't Buy Japanese") craze, thinking that tax cuts enacted over a year from now will somehow alleviate the present recession, the assumption that we care whom Bill Clinton slept with and how many times and the idea that the public's "right to know" means that rape victims should be forced to testify live in front of 250 million people...
...what about sports? The national pastime is baseball, which became popular at the turn of the century, but among college students, the latest craze is American football (setdown, ready, ichi, ni, san). The Super Bowl, as well as the World Series, is broadcast live in Japan...
Merchandisers are racing to cash in on what is shaping up as the next pop- culture craze after the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. A Nintendo video-game version of Gladiators is being readied for release this month. Topps is planning to come out with trading cards of the 10 gladiators. Newhall Merchandising Concepts, Inc., is whipping up American Gladiators Juniors vitamins for young gladiator wannabes. And Mattel is introducing a line of toys that includes miniature gladiator action figures and small-scale models of events such as the obstacle course, known as the Eliminator. In Hollywood fevered brains...