Word: crazes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winter vacation to a head: Why Elmo? What has happened to America that "Sesame Street," with all its other colorful characters and personalities, can't appear as one harmonious cast, a community like those in which we all would like to live in? Why must the Elmo craze be spinning off even more Elmo products and scalpers with the original Tickle Me Elmo dolls still run amok in office pools and newsgroups...
...another form of nonconfrontational resistance to the push of competition and academic rigor. A stuffed animal on a college bed is the sign that more matters than classes, term papers and internships, but it doesn't send a clear picture of what exactly is more important. The Elmo craze has shown that even cuteness and harmless things can bring out the viciousness of the holiday season; Elmo is an adorable but malleable symbol...
...first human kidney transplant was performed at Harvard, and the goldfish swallowing craze of the 1940s was started by a Harvard student, Lothrop Withington...
Clearly Canadian, based in British Columbia, could use some cheer itself. A pioneer in the clear beverage craze of the early 1990s, CC saw its sales go flat when diet-conscious consumers found that its natural-looking soft drinks still had plenty of calories. Orbitz, launched last May, has so far landed in the U.S. on the East and West coasts. The company intends to ship nearly 1 million cases (price: $1.29 a bottle) in its first year, some four times more than originally planned. A lot of adults must be nauseated...
Then I was going to do a piece on an Oxford craze that's sweeping the nation called punting...