Word: fads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taking of drugs, especially marijuana and L.S.D. (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide), is becoming a fad among college and high school students who wish to assert their independence by breaking the law and offending their parents, and who wish to experiment with new physical and psychological sensations...
Current smokes include almost anything from the supermarket spice and herb shelves plus dried hydrangea leaves, chlorine-soaked lettuce, and green peppers (aged until rotten, then used as a bulbous cigarette filter). But far and away the biggest new fad is tripping on banana peels...
Everywhere, ongoing fads are picking up momentum. Among the campus set, wall posters depicting its heroes and anti-heroes are bigger than ever. "When wa-,j#^ '" " ter is boiling, it's hard to tell when it gets hotter, but the fad hasn't reached its peak," says Martin Geisler, owner of Manhattan's Per PROTEST BUTTON sonality Posters. Right now the Monkees are the most popular of his 70 posters; other favorites, each for $1, include Chairman Mao, Dracula, the Hell's Angels, Shirley Temple, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Ginsberg in his Uncle Sam suit...
...fashioned skiing may still be the best way to whoosh down a snowy slope, but thrill seekers are rapidly inventing new-fashioned ways of descent. Just as snowmobiling has become the latest U.S. fad (TIME, Feb. 17), the sport of ski bobbing has caught on in Europe. Ski bobs range in price from $100 to $150, look like small bicycles on skis, weigh about 17 lbs., and can readily be dismantled to fit into car trunks. The tubular metal frame has handle bars connected to a short pivoting ski in front, and a well-padded saddle moored to a longer...
...consolation prize on The $64,000 Question? Who cares? Thousands upon thousands of Trivia players do, and to them the answers* are so much duck soup. They have made Trivia-a campy game of inconsequential questions and answers about radio, TV, movies, comic books and popular songs-a nationwide fad...