Word: mania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Research Project, funded by the Justice Department. Among other things, the survey traced how potential legal disputes were resolved in 5,000 households in five different U.S. judicial districts, and some of the results are summarized in the current issue of the U.C.L.A. Law Review. The conclusion: the litigation "mania" that Burger has complained about does not exist...
...newspaper outside New England will run a feature on the Beanpot Tournament--not so much a sports article, but a slice-of-life-in-Boston article. Curious, isn't it, how Bostonians get so excited over college hockey, the collegiate sport that never managed to produce the same nationwide mania as football and basketball? And they pack the Boston Garden for a little tournament--the same four teams play every year, even--and they scream themselves hoarse, Quaint old Beantown...
...boys' clothing maker, is offering $32 a share for Faberge, or $2 more than has so far been bid by anyone else. If the McGregor proposal succeeds, Faberge would become part of Meshulam Riklis's Rapid-American empire, which owns majority control of McGregor. Merger mania has had prospective targets searching for effective defenders (see box), and has inspired a spirited game on Wall Street: guessing which firms might be next. One frequently named takeover candidate is RCA (1983 revenues: $8.98 billion), whose sickly profits have not been helped by the dreary ratings of its NBC television network...
Nowhere has the "camo" craze been more noticeable than in Washington, where Redskins mania has been epitomized Running Back John Riggins' off-field military garb. Sales of military gear have "broken all records," according to Laura Loeb, manager of Washington's U.S. Military store. A city bus was even decorated in camouflage as a promotional stunt for the National Guard. Meanwhile in Hollywood, stars like Priscilla Barnes of Three's Company are donning camouflage and more exotic military wear. "I've sold flight coveralls to Raquel Welch," reports Jeff Stein, owner of the Camp Beverly Hills...
...When a mania for art nouveau swept over Europe in the 1890s, Louis Comfort Tiffany was ready with an American version of the new style. The 88 color plates in The Lamps of Tiffany Studios (Abrams; 178 pages; $120) demonstrate the distinctive artistry of the designer, who used 5,000 colors and textures of glass to confect his fanciful, flower-bedecked shades. For 40 years his Long Island foundries turned out the lamps that cast a gaudy glow in U.S. homes. Then Tiffany objects went out of style, and in the early 1930s their creator went bankrupt. In the late...