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Word: fad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...course they don’t, because those players—along with several others—comprise the dark underbelly of the “High School-to-NBA” fad that has been gaining momentum over the past ten years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KING JAMES BIBLE: Players Should Stick to College | 4/9/2004 | See Source »

...Cartman turn metrosexual—trading their hooded jackets for tight T-shirts and gelled hair. At first their mothers and the women in general take a liking to this change in appearance and attitude. However, as things progress, they come to notice the dark underside of this fad. The men of South Park have become so concerned with making it to the next shoe sale and keeping up their fabulous look that they stop paying attention to the women and lose sight of their own masculinity. The metrosexualization of the show’s male population provides an opening...

Author: By Brian A. Finn, | Title: Metrosexualizing Our Identity | 3/25/2004 | See Source »

...thing that TV on the Radio have going for them is that they really do sound like nothing out there at the moment. They may borrow beats and keyboard accents from the retro-wave fad that’s sweeping the current New York scene, but they add to them in such interesting and entertaining ways that it’s hard to make comparisons between TV and any of the old-time greats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music Reviews | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

...Sherman said that he thinks the popularity of social networking websites at Harvard and other schools is not simply a fad...

Author: By Anastasios G. Skalkos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Online Facebook Launched | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

Since the advent of the internet, sociologists and anthropologists have been scrambling to make sense of the social phenomenon. The academics, though, are often behind the times, writing about a fad a year after it’s passe. For instance, researchers of online social networking still study the chat room craze, even though many people exited chat rooms for good in the mid 90?...

Author: By Sarah E.F. Milov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sociology of thefacebook.com | 3/18/2004 | See Source »

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