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...with some anomalies: tribesmen clad only in "ass grass" (leaves fore and aft hanging from a bark belt) push shopping carts in supermarkets, and spear-carrying warriors in the hills go into their occasional battles with blaring transistor radios strapped to their bodies. On a political level, the latest fad is independence-and not just from Australia. Prime Minister Somare's new government is already plagued by two separatist movements...
...wheeler rolling by Mile 78 on 1-90 North. Got an overturned camper here, lots of smokeys [police] in the area, and it's pretty congested.' It was a useful message, and it made the point that what may have started out as a fad or a tool against police has turned into a valuable driving aid. In Kansas the number of deaths caused by drivers falling asleep, for example, has been on the decline for two years, and police attribute the drop...
...only old television shows but a number of antique radio serials, such as The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet, also command fervent fad followings. In the new discotheques springing up round the country, hit tunes from the '40s and '50s are the dominant sound, and there's a whole new Tarzan vogue (see following story...
...Europe as a trendy "new 'consumer good' in the theological market." But those who espouse it so far do not seem to be faddists, and they do not expect instant change. If anything, liberation theology may well be just too demanding to become a fad. Said one Detroit participant, Beverly Harrison, a professor of social ethics at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary: "The liberal in me wants a different world, but the liberal in me also wants that world without changing myself, and without pain." This common, human contradiction, as much as some oppressive system...
...devotees call it, claims a fast-growing following among suburban housewives, businessmen, athletes and even retirees. The number of active TM practitioners has jumped from about 250,000 two years ago to more than 575,000 at present. Now TM has achieved indisputable certification as a full-blown nationwide fad: not one but two books extolling the movement are high up on the bestseller lists...