Word: fevered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sniffed on comet inhalers. Braver sorts wearing comet-shaped diamond hatpins or toting comet-knobbed walking canes flocked to rooftop parties at the old Waldorf-Astoria. In advertisements, bars of soap and cans of coffee were depicted flying through space, feathery tails in their wake. Comet mania was at fever pitch, and freewheeling entrepreneurs were everywhere, peddling their wares...
...modern version of Cinderella's slipper: a gold-and-jewel-encrusted spike-heeled shoe on a brocaded cushion. The bride and bridegroom danced their wedding dance to Sarah Vaughan's I'm Crazy About the Boy, and later on, the Boy himself showed off some Saturday Night Fever steps for the enthusiastic crowd. As for the Boy Toy, she vetoed her own music, although one of the wedding's deejays, Terence Toy (yes, Toy), sneaked in the upbeat, romantic Lucky Star. Said Toy primly: "I didn't play Like a Virgin." --By Amy Wilentz. Reported by Barbara Kraft/Los Angeles
Travolta is one of Isaacson's major projects. The actor will soon be getting ready for Far from Over, or Saturday Night Fever III. A self-described "reluctant matador" when it comes to exercise, Travolta has developed some unaesthetic handles around his hips. "When I'm not being paid a lot of money to do a movie and to get in shape, I'm like Marlon Brando," he confesses. Says the determined Isaacson: "There's no question as to whether we can produce the shape and the look." After all, Isaacson came to fame, or more precisely to the attention...
...surge was in part the product of encouraging economic signs: falling interest rates, low inflation, sagging oil prices, a declining dollar that will help reduce the U.S. trade deficit, and enactment of the Gramm-Rudman law to slash the federal budget deficit. The market was also driven by merger fever, as opportunistic investors pushed up the prices of companies thought to be takeover targets...
...experiencing a dance fever unmatched since the days of, well, Dance Fever, with ballroom classes at gyms and movies like Rize and Mad Hot Ballroom in theaters. Of course, any show that presents Bachelorette Trista Sutter as a celebrity is not going to bother too much with terpsichorean authenticity. Did you know that Three Times a Lady was a waltz? That Britney Spears' Toxic was a tango? That the jive was, per the narration, "a fast-paced rock-'n'-roll extravaganza born in the 1920s"? Or had you forgotten there was rock 'n' roll in the 1920s...