Word: fads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever used them in quite the manner of Parisian Painter Yves Klein. He has his nude models smear themselves with paint, then lets them hurl themselves at a blank canvas while he shouts directions from a stepladder. By such tricks, Klein has become at 32 the fad of gallery-going France, and his prices have risen fourfold in the past two years. Last week he invaded West Germany with an eyebrow-raising exhibit in the textile town of Krefeld, twelve miles northwest of Düsseldorf. The good people of Krefeld hardly knew what to make...
...Lonesome Tonight?, including the original by Elvis Presley, which is now the nation's No. 1 hit. But if Elvis stays up there, there may well be a dozen variations on the theme. The Lonesome craze is the most blatant example of pop music's latest fad: the "answer" record, which provides an answer to a question raised in an established...
...that I was particularly surprised by Mr. Smith's letter, since I share his hostility to the current fad of foreign policy "images"--a way of expressing oneself which actually figured very little in the conference on December 2 and 3. H. Stuart Hughes, Professor of History...
...longtime preoccupation with the shape of the human figure has reached from Fletcher's mastication diet of the early 1900s to Elmer Wheeler's Fat Boy calorie counter of the '50s, but no diet fad has ever taken the U.S. so overwhelmingly as the craze for the food supplement Metrecal (TIME, Oct. 3) and its sister brands. Across the nation last week, drugstores and supermarkets were clamoring for fresh carload deliveries to accommodate the growing hordes of Schmoo-shaped addicts who were insisting on guzzling their way to the vanishing point. Cried a happy druggist...
...food and drug men, the big question is whether the vogue for "drink-a-meal" diet potions will turn out to be just another passing fad. Mead Johnson is certain that in Metrecal's case it will not. Metrecal is still the big seller over the imitations, despite the fact that they are cheaper. Mead Johnson, which has already trimmed its prices, can cut further, if necessary, and still make a good profit. The cost of making a can of Metrecal, which sells for $1.29, is less than...