Word: fad
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...Japanese celebrities - like actress Mami Kumagai, who has been using Fukumitsuya's Amino Rice line - hasn't done any harm either. Some producers are now trying to boost skin-care goods to 50% of all sake sales, and hope that the current buzz is more than just a passing fad. If it isn't, they'll certainly have plenty of sake left over in which to drown their sorrows...
...Joshua Copel, president-elect of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, can come up with only one other example of medical imaging equipment being used in a nonmedical setting--and that fad became extinct decades ago: "They no longer have those X-ray machines in shoe stores so you can look at the bones in your feet as much as you want...
...whisper by the moderator ("Mr. Barfee has a sea anemone circus in his basement"), to the ridiculously unhelpful sentences meant to put the words in context ("Sally's mother told her it was her cystitis that made her special"). The show also, more distractingly, partakes in the current Broadway fad of audience participation: four civilians each night are selected to go onstage to compete alongside the actors. (They're coached in advance to ask two questions--for the word's definition and for the word to be used in a sentence--but they rise or fall on their own spelling...
...fashion trends are a constant theme. “The worst female trend would have to be those one-strap Britney Spears tops,” Selsby says. “Those just don’t look good on anyone.” For males, the worst fad “would have to be the lack of hats,” says self-proclaimed fashionista Selsby. You heard the man, don a fedora...
...Heard of the Lanna revival? If you're bound for Thailand's lush north, you won't be able to escape this architectural fad, which celebrates the building styles of the Lanna civilization?a 14th and 15th century society that encompassed northern Thailand, part of Laos and what are now the Shan States of Burma...