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This strategy is one of the many available to the 70 registered participants in "Killer," a game of cloak-and-dagger intrigue organized by three freshmen. "Killer" and similar games known as "Murder" and "Assassin" are rapidly becoming a fad on the nation's campuses...
...sophomore in high school, she has just made her eighth movie, Franco Zeffirelli's Endless Love, due out this summer. No one doubts that it was her 1978 film, Louis Malle's haunting Pretty Baby, in which she played a twelve-year-old prostitute, that inspired whatever campy fad exists for very young models. Students of the ridiculous have noticed a trend, or at least a good, hard try at a trend, toward gunking half-sprouted twelve-and 13-year-olds with alarming quantities of makeup and pinning them into getups suitable for jaded jet-setters. The microboppers rigged...
Some C & W club owners refuse to install bullpits, in the belief that riding the bull will prove a passing fad. Others are leary of higher insurance rates and injury claims-even though in most places the machine is surrounded by hefty cushioning, and riders are required to sign waivers absolving the owners from responsibility for injury. The very prospect of danger can be a potent spur. Peter Szymanski, 26, a computer technician from Gardner, Mass., took such a bad fall at Boston's Celebration that he had to nurse twelve stitches under his cowboy hat. "It hasn...
...ubiquitous that some of the firm's traditional customers are grumbling. Said one impeccably dressed matron who stopped at Vuitton's Manhattan shop last week to ask about the plain bags: "I don't want my friends to think I'm adhering to the fad of having designer initials on everything." Vuitton will still make its standard initialed line for those who wish to be walking billboards...
Take Calvin Trillin. Please. At the very least, take his book, a thoroughly diverting novel that nips at the unexposed flanks of the newsmagazine process, particularly the so-called back of the book, where a new sect or fad is no news until the magazine's editors/correspondents discover it. There is, for example, the "dirty bushes" story involving a gardener who prunes shrubs into phallic and vaginal shapes. And the quixotic "two-thirds stocking" fad, where the only stumbling block for the writer is what two-thirds means -two-thirds of the way to the knee or just...