Word: fad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...studies provide some of the best evidence so far that the popular practice of ingesting large amounts of vitamins may turn out to be more than just an expensive fad. Still, experts caution that the research does not provide a conclusive link between vitamin E and healthy hearts. "We cannot yet make public-policy recommendations," says Claude Lenfant, director of the U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. "We need randomized trials" in which the subjects do not know if they are taking the vitamin...
...quickly, a couple of minor reforms: tell players to get rid of the moldy "gym rat" fad of wearing T shirts under their uniform shirts. This is intended to signify dedication, because if you keep practicing three pointers long after the heat has been turned off, you need a T shirt. But the pros don't dress this way, do they? Also lose the dreary possession arrow and reinstate the jump after a held ball. Little squirts love to try to outjump the big droids, and audiences love to see them do it. Right. And, coach, you up there...
...western strongholds. In the boutiquey historic district of Charleston, South Carolina, Southerners are lining up to scoot their boots at the Blue Coyote. This week Denim & Diamonds will open a 16,000-sq.-ft. venue at a former Playboy Club site in midtown Manhattan. "It's not just a fad," maintains Dave Cervini of New York City's C. and W. station WYNY, who has helped promote line-dancing events on New York's Long Island. "You never see drugs, weapons, fights. It's definitely a change. It's a return to something peaceful...
...Jack Parker, we've got Ronn Tomassoni. Jack's a legend when it comes to the Beanpot. But he's got one drawback: hair. Tomassoni's balding, Parker isn't. Hair is out, baldness is in. Ever since His Airness became His Hairlessness, it's become the fad. Balding coach, one to Harvard...
...came across a couple of nice mementos from the Republican Convention. Just a few political pins is enough to bring it all back, the lights, the balloons, the crowds...where a peek around the halls of the media building exposed excessive amounts of pin trading, the true convention fad...