Word: crazes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Crimson editors decided to take advantage of the new craze. They set up shop in the Winthrop House suite of Jay R. Nussbaum...
...sound-alikes. We're baby boomers too. This is our music. In our minds, it was the Beatles or no one." After some ticklish negotiations and two large payments, it was the Beatles singing and playing for Nike-Air shoes. No getting around it: Nike has brought the current craze for rock commercials to a benchmark and made a bit of pop history as well...
...downer is that a pyramid payoff requires an ever larger supply of new investors, until eventually the scheme crashes. To protect the unwary, pyramid games have been made illegal in most states. Even so, the craze has spread on college campuses: at the University of Maryland, automated teller machines ran short of cash this month after one high-flying weekend...
...free weights, and exercise bicycle and an ergometer have spurred interest in the Mather House weight room. Buonfiglio says the changes have brought people out of the woodwork; "the hard-body fad mixes with the yuppie health craze" at the weight room," he says...
Perl and Cagan are among the growing number of Americans, many of them under 40, who are tuning in to "crystal consciousness," the pseudoscientific belief that such natural gemstones as quartz crystal, citrine, tourmaline and amethyst have paranormal healing and restorative powers. The crystal craze is part of a loosely linked spiritualism gaining ground on both coasts. Called "New Age" thinking, it is an esoteric blend of computer-age jargon and ancient religious practice, which often invested stones with powerful magic. Some other curious elements of the New Age faith include reincarnation, channeling (communing with souls in their afterlife...