Word: fad
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...Jack Parker, we've got Ronn Tomassoni. Jack's a legend when it comes to the Beanpot. But he's got one drawback: hair. Tomassoni's balding, Parker isn't. Hair is out, baldness is in. Ever since His Airness became His Hairlessness, it's become the fad. Balding coach, one to Harvard...
...came across a couple of nice mementos from the Republican Convention. Just a few political pins is enough to bring it all back, the lights, the balloons, the crowds...where a peek around the halls of the media building exposed excessive amounts of pin trading, the true convention fad...
...Fad-hungry kids act up in a worldwide rhythm revolution...
...craze has been a jackpot for vendors, who collect $13 to $15 a garment. Some sellers have continued peddling the shirts, claiming a teenager who wears a gun shirt isn't likely to attract attention to himself by also toting a gun. Other vendors insist it is only a fad but have halted the supply in response to parental concern. "But T shirts don't kill people," says manufacturer Ben S. Ali, who has stopped selling the shirts. "People kill people...
Clinton, for his part, is betting that concern for the environment is more than a fad. He has assigned Gore the mission of delivering the message that working to preserve the biosphere can create rather than cost jobs. Clinton and Gore contend that sound environmental policies can be an engine of growth that will help the American economy compete with Germany and Japan in the 1990s...