Word: crazes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Already it looks as if commedia della calculator will fast become a national craze. Says James Rogers, an editor of Scientific American magazine: "I went through the stage of saying 'I don't need one of these.' But once you get one, it's sheer bliss." To achieve BLISS, punch 441304, divide...
...people who made this movie intended to capitalize on some so-called nostalgia craze, then somebody should have told them that there is more to the art of allusion than straight imitation. There is the self-consciousness that registers not the action but the joke in its reverberations; it puns off not the sense but the sensibility of the thing, a game of doublethink. But the self-consciousness of this movie is solipsistic. It is so linear in the literalness of its interpretation that it two-times rather than doublethinks Fitzgerald's story--it's all copycat. Fitzgerald might...
...least according to a study by the Center for Policy Research. The Manhattan-based agency studies social trends, and the findings of a recently published survey show, among other things, a marked increase in belief in the devil. The survey, taken last spring well before the current Exorcist craze, sampled the opinions of 3,546 adults across the U.S. and found that 48% were certain that the devil exists. Another 20% thought his existence probable. In a similar 1964 poll, only 37% of those surveyed were convinced that the devil exists. Clyde Z. Nunn, senior research associate of the center...
...religious trend that's going on, the craving for the supernatural, the interest in the nonmaterial," said the Most Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey, who arrived in Manhattan for a lecture tour. "Genuine cases of demonic possession are a minority," he added. "If there's an immense craze on the subject, it is a sign of spiritual immaturity...
...reflect the newest look, including hair styles and makeup." When black pride swelled in the early '60s, mannequin makers were ready with black models. More recently, they have created "the ethnic look": dummies with Mexican, Eurasian or Oriental features. Some mannequin makers have picked up the nostalgia craze and created Marilyn Monroe models. "We've made the figures rounder and softer, with bellies and bottoms," says William O'Connor of Adel Rootstein. The Houston department store Sakowitz & Co. asked D.G. Williams & Co. to mold the boss's wife, comely Pamela Sakowitz, in plastic. With...