Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Looks as if Pokemon fever doesn't stop at any one place. In Korea a company that produces pastry snacks made a new product that includes character stickers from the Pokemon series. Kids here are very interested in collecting all 151 stickers--actually, obsessed is the word for it. I have seen so many uneaten pastries thrown away because youngsters buy the product just to get the sticker inside. Money and food are being wasted, and yet children aren't aware that they are doing anything wrong. HYUN JEE KIM, AGE 17 Seoul...
According to Ringen, the Harry Potter fever has been instructive for publishers about trends in the modern marketplace...
...fever has definitely caught on," says Steve Babbitt, the Coop's trade book manager. "She's been pretty popular all over the place...
...pages of the senator's exhaustive medical records, some would-be voters are wondering if they really needed quite so much information about the presidential candidate. Public airing of certain tidbits, like the fact that the senator from Arizona uses a nasal spray for his seasonal hay fever, or that he had a herpetic lesion on his genitals (which disappeared without treatment!) may help to dissipate fears of lingering problems brought on by his ordeal as a POW - in part because no one who would tell the general public about herpetic lesions can be hiding very much. But even...
...Jordan--he's weathered the gonzo publicity machines surrounding his more high-profile efforts, including 1992's The Crying Game, for which he won a best original screenplay Oscar, and Interview with the Vampire, which came out as the worldwide Brad Pitt craze was fast approaching a fever pitch...