Word: fad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then we'll know whether this fall's Palace surge is a fad or a genuine paradigm shift, the Net's first step toward the three-dimensional virtual world that cyberpunk writers have envisioned for years. Imagine the capitalist dreams that cheap bandwidth and visual communities the size of shopping malls might fulfill: try-it-on Gaps; virtual town halls; online nightclubs with live video and sound. "I'm not sure that even the guys at E.C. know what the Palace's future is," says Foley. Like the Web browser before it, the Palace has a chance to become that...
...students in line yesterday are any indication, the popularity of the "Fly-By" lunch option is more than just a passing fad. At2:10 p.m., five minutes before closing time, there was still a steady stream of hungry undergraduates. As DeRosa reached to return an ID card, the owner paused to ask, "Hey, are you guys open for dinner...
...weakness for Cheez Curls and Ding Dongs, and the diet industry is a $40 billion annual ripoff. Although the media are despised for cheap fat jokes and the glorification of supermodels and other stick people, "our evil enemy is the diet industry," says Smith, who laid into fad diets and the manufacturers of diet drugs with dangerous side effects...
Brian Turner, president of Priority Records, a hip-hop label whose roster includes Ice Cube, says hip-hop, once called a fad, is now an essential part of American culture. "The hip-hop industry, in general, is stronger than it's ever been, in terms of units sold, in terms of the number of releases," says Turner. "Rap has proved itself to be the rock 'n' roll of the '90s." And today's hot rockers--Beck, Korn, even, to a certain extent, Alanis Morissette--often draw on hip-hop rhythms and attitude...
That's right, your daughter. Although the steroid fad seems to be fading among teenage boys, the latest studies suggest that it's just taking off among girls. A survey conducted at Pennsylvania State University estimates that the number of steroid-popping 14-to-18-year-old girls has roughly doubled over the past seven years and could be as high as 175,000 nationwide. A study of four Massachusetts middle schools found that girls as young as 10 are taking the performance-enhancing drugs in roughly the same numbers as boys...