Word: crazes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Harvard students tend not to engage in Wing-Olympics, some have eschewed their love of pizza to join the winging-it craze. "It really fills you up more than pizza. Tastes better, too," says Matthews Hall resident Jerome D. Chao '90. "We've switched over to the wings completely...
Mireya Navarro, 29, a California journalist, reports that her relationship with an "Anglo from Berkeley" used to undergo social duress and some physical stress when the couple hit the dance floor. Then the merengue craze blew in from back East. "I tell him, 'All you have to do is march and move your hips,' " Navarro says. "If there's one dance that Anglos can get into, merengue is it." In New York City, merengue is footing aside other variations of Latin dance music and is busting out of the Spanish clubs into slicker venues. Mayor Edward Koch showed...
...Betty Smith, state chairman for Northern California: "The most appalling thing for me is that this is certainly not a solution to a serious drug problem." San Francisco Supervisor Bill Maher, author of a bill banning all drug testing within city limits except for uniformed civil servants, mocks the craze. "I think they ought to test the urine for brain cells instead of drugs," says he. "The political leadership of urinating into a test tube eludes...
...latest craze for teenagers, mostly boys, bike breaking first rode out of the California fadlands. Today urban parks and streets all across the nation spin with the kids' aggressive energy and hair-raising choreography. They have their own argot: "rad" means good; a "squid" or "nipple head" is an awkward rider; "to Wilson" is to fall. In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, somebody brings the music -- Phil Collins, Run-D.M.C. -- and somebody else a ramp for the daredevils to soar above, and the showboating begins. Says Dave Vanderspek, 22, the leader of the Curb Dogs Club: "Instead...
...member of one of the professional teams now traveling the country may earn from $35,000 to $85,000 a year for appearing at shows under the auspices of such bike manufacturers as GT, Haro and Red Line. Bike breaking has all the signs of a street craze going mainstream: bikers are showing up in commercials (Pepsi, Swatch watches) and in music videos, and grateful merchandisers are climbing aboard with lines of bikes, gear and clothes. Says Happy Freedman, a semipro cyclist and salesman at Larry & Jeff's in New York City: "The freestyle craze is only starting. By next...