Word: fad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fad-hungry kids act up in a worldwide rhythm revolution...
...craze has been a jackpot for vendors, who collect $13 to $15 a garment. Some sellers have continued peddling the shirts, claiming a teenager who wears a gun shirt isn't likely to attract attention to himself by also toting a gun. Other vendors insist it is only a fad but have halted the supply in response to parental concern. "But T shirts don't kill people," says manufacturer Ben S. Ali, who has stopped selling the shirts. "People kill people...
Clinton, for his part, is betting that concern for the environment is more than a fad. He has assigned Gore the mission of delivering the message that working to preserve the biosphere can create rather than cost jobs. Clinton and Gore contend that sound environmental policies can be an engine of growth that will help the American economy compete with Germany and Japan in the 1990s...
...matter what the fashion is, there is alwaysa way of incorporating beads in it," Hunt said."Beads are therefore a trend and not a fad...
...Palmer (Sheryl Lee). After an agonizing first half-hour designed to empty the theater, Lynch unleashes his patented perfervid style, puts the familiar dwarfs and feebs on display and elicits a nicely horrifying turn from Lee. But the magic has died: nothing seems older than a two-year-old fad on the comeback trail. How ya gonna keep 'em down in Twin Peaks after the Zeitgeist's gone...