Word: fad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What fad swept Quincy House in the spring of 1973, and why did Dean Epps attempt to stop...
...face of a local office employee who is celebrating his 26th birthday. The two agents, hired by the celebrator's merry-minded boss for $35 (pie included), are operatives of Pie Face International, one of a growing number of organizations across the country dedicated to the silliest U.S. fad since streaking: smashing pies into the faces of selected victims-for a price...
...content with the routine ("Jim Jones is not at home. At the signal, please leave your name, number and message. Beep"), increasing numbers of Americans are loading their telephone answering devices with creative and amusing greetings, often in verse and music. Electronic answering has become not only a fad but something of an art form...
...FUTURE OF THE CAR. We are just not attuned to getting anywhere any other way than by automobile. Some people ride buses. Now trains are coming back-but it's a fad. This country developed in a particular way because of the automobile, and you can't just push a button and change...
...Stillness at Appomattox, Mississippi-born Novelist Shelby Foote began what was to have been a short, one-volume history of the war. Now, 20 years and 2,934 pages later, he has completed his history with this third volume. It is a pity that the Civil War fad seems to have abated; a historical narrative as rich in detail and purely exciting as Foote's deserves an audience of amateurs as well as professionals...