Word: crazes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life would be drab otherwise. Were the puzzle not useless enough, the craze has spawned several books which, as they compete for space on the best-seller list with dead felines, make impoverished math graduate students rich. For all the collectors of bottomless ashtrays, Rubik's Cubes now come in monocolored and multicolored, but two faced, models, neither of which encloses a solution. The success of ideal Toy Corporation resembles, that of the Grot Company, a creation of British television Grot sells only useless things. After the sales of Rubik's Cube and its various geometrically precise successors decline, American...
...Pulver, a purported A-movie), he and director Monte Hellman took the B-unit to the Phillipines and made Back Door to Hell and Flight to Fury. The low-budget films had strictly limited aspirations, and still failed to fulfill them. So the dynamic duo turned to the latest craze, The Western; Nicholson wrote Ride the Whirlwind and Adrien Joyce penned The Shooting; filmed simultaneously on the Utah desert, neither was ever released...
...circus film. She notched her first Oscar for dressing Olivia de Havilland as a spinster in The Heiress in 1949. Prim and priggish-looking in her bangs and tortoise-shell glasses, Head costumed actors for more than 1,000 movies and created some fashion trends, including a minor 1930s craze after she wrapped Dorothy Lamour in a sarong for Jungle Princess...
...Useless to resist. It is everywhere. On T shirts, umbrellas, potholders, even nightgowns, Puzzles, Piggy banks. At Harvard, where they had a General Hospital weekend. It is a campus craze, a teen-age fad, a licensing bonanza and the top-rated soap on the tube, leaving All My Children and One Life to Live in the dust. Some 12 million people watch it every afternoon (3 to 4 p.m. E.S.T.). Have laid in provisions, disconnected phone. Must watch General Hospital...
There are, of course, those who contend that the current consulting craze is no different from what has been going on in the physical sciences for decades. "What's new is for this to happen to biologists," Richard M. Losick, professor of Biology and one of the consultants to Biotechnica, says. But most professors, administrators and businessmen familiar with the situation disagree. The consulting arrangement now prevalent in the biological and applied sciences is qualitatively different. A new breed of consultant is emerging...