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...question of whether the recent surge in student activism is merely a fad or capable of producing lasting change remains unanswered. "What we are looking at right now might become a new student movement," says Thelwell, who witnessed the beginning of 1960s movement...
Suhs did eventually face Smith in the 100-yd. backstroke. B.U.'s standout joined in the record-breaking fad, smashing the EWSL mark with a time of 0:56.08. Findley placed third, while Suhs grabbed fifth...
...suggestion of his Harvard friend, Darren (Darren A. Thierry) gains membership to the gang by coming up with a riduculous fashion. So wild is this fashion trend that the gang members initially shy away from it. But the trend catches fire when the Somerville gang picks up on the fad, and fashion is turned on its head--literally...
...California there is little question that skinheads have ties with established racist groups. Tom Metzger, a former Klan leader who now heads the White Aryan Resistance, tries to recruit among skinheads. His son John Metzger teaches skinheads how to organize. Says the younger Metzger: "It's not a fad. It's a movement and a reaction against what's going on." Maybe. But more than anything else, the skinheads are a frightening, pathetic reminder that the U.S. has not solved its racial problems -- and that it is time the subject once more take a prominent place on the national agenda...
...this reliance on technique and surface flash flirts with fashion (Cat Vocalist Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot turned his cap front to back and started a fad) and plays fast and loose with the built-in impermanence of pop. It also makes most Britpop inbred and narcissistic and ripe for a revisionism that may already be happening. Upstart groups like the Godfathers, the Zodiac Mindwarp & the Love Reaction, and Gay Bikers on Acid are harking back to the brash activism and overheated playing of the late-'70s Clash era. In Hull, 150 miles north of the London scene, the Housemartins are purveying...