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...peanut butter? A peanut that never forgets or an elephant that sticks to the roof of your mouth) and the more recent grape jokes. (What's purple and hums? An electric grape. Why does it hum? It doesn't know the words). Another collegiate fad was the Tom Swifties, inspired by Author Edward Stratemeyer's series. "I've been looking forward to this ride," said Lady Godiva shiftlessly...
...made by rabbits and horned lizards seeking shade; by night, the only noise was the sound of coyotes howling. Now the dunes reverberate with the sound of engines rev ving and backfiring. These are the echoes of the desert dragster, practitioner of the West's newest, and hottest, fad - desert drag and dune racing...
...goods, which are tailored to Latin American tastes. Clothing styles owe more to Europe than the U.S. The tool and paint departments, which are mainstays in the U.S., scarcely exist in Latin America, where cheap labor and a middle-class aversion to manual work prevent any do-it-yourself fad...
...chronicles the dizzying evolution of kinetic sculpture, the latest fad, from such beginnings as Dadaist Marcel Duchamp's 1913 mobile. SHOW BUSINESS notes how TV brought about the hideously funny reincarnation of Batman, a comic strip still fondly remembered by the middleaged. And MEDICINE seems to confirm again that many old wives' tales contain a granule of fact; the human palm, it now appears, does reveal secrets - but not the kind looked for by devotees of palmistry...
...other major crimes, and cause 31.5% of all traffic fatalities. Youth stages demonstrations in support of the country's enemies. Youth parades with placards of four-letter words. Youth scandalizes proud suburbs with grass parties-grass being one of the hippiest synonyms for marijuana. The latest campus fad seems to be underground "anti-universities" with courses in such subjects as revolution, "Search for the Authentic Sexual Experience" and hallucinogenic drugs. Boys look like girls, girls look like boys, and the songs they sing are not of love and laughter, but sour, self-pitying whines about how awful things...