Word: fad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very close to the street," says David Cole, 28, one half of C+C Music Factory, one of the hottest producing duos in dance music, a fad-mad, producer-reliant subspecies that has jumped out of the clubs and cornered the pop charts. "We were born in dance music. We are disco babies...
...growing up and playing out a predictable life- cycle change." Elmer Johnson, a Chicago lawyer and former executive vice president of General Motors, sees "a hardness of heart that has not yet begun to be broken." John Kenneth Galbraith, the eminent liberal economist, dismisses the trend as a bicoastal fad among fast-trackers. Says he, with amused cynicism: "I just think it's pure horse...
Colleges are as subject to fad and fashion as the rest of society -- perhaps more, for the client base of students turns over quickly. But few scholars believe the current intellectual battles will end soon -- particularly as the confrontation permeates other levels of education. In the process, the American tradition of tolerance in diversity, an uneven tradition at best, may be strained as rarely before...
Food as entertainment was a fad of the ostentatious '80s, but yesterday's foie gras has become today's mashed potatoes. In a time of recession, diners are still serious about what they eat, but they look hard at their wallets before perusing the menu. Aware of this, restaurateurs are combining ingenuity with unpretentious ingredients to come up with dishes that are easy on both the palate and the pocketbook...
...think they're trying their hardest to turn this into a fad--you know, relive the '60s," El-Jeean says. "Anyone who wants to do that has a sick sense of taste. I really hate the Boston radical hotbed...