Word: crazes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation should take note of the Homer Hanky craze. Every day, hundreds of loyal citizens line up outside the local newspaper to get 50 cent hankies. Homer Hankies are being tied around baby bottoms, flying from flagpoles and, most importantly, waving in the Dome...
...hope this boom goes on. I think it's delicious," Johnson said, discussing Boston's recent building craze. "I trust it. I love it. I know you'll do it right," he said of the city and the architectural decisions it faces...
...which is based in San Bruno, Calif., has been an innovative leader in the specialty retail business that is siphoning sales away from department stores. Founded in 1969 by Entrepreneur Donald Fisher, the company relied heavily on the blue-jeans craze in the 1970s, but then added bright-colored, practical sports clothes. In 1983 Fisher made two shrewd moves. He bought Banana Republic, a San Francisco retailer with three stores and a catalog operation that sold trendy travel and safari wear, and he hired a new president, Millard Drexler, the marketing whiz from the Bronx who had turned around...
...monotypes by Maurice Prendergast. There is also some very minor work by famous names (Homer, Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett) and a plethora of those 1890s contre-jour pictures of nice Boston girls in flowing chiffon scarves -- genteel provincial salon painting that has been revived as a market craze for investors now that the supply of Childe Hassams and the like is running...
...order craze that Reagan stood for, and which Attorney General Edwin Meese embodies, rests on a simplified view of society. It is much easier to trample the civil liberties of the accused when those being affected are deemed "evil." Meese said as much by arguing that the only people who need fear constitutionally questionable drug tests are drug users...