Word: mania
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pride and Prejudice (A&E) Having arrived just when it seemed Austen-mania could be borne no longer, this lush production radiantly revived the rage for Jane. With perfectly observed sets and a keen grasp of the subversive social themes that underlie Austen's comedy, this mini-series put its competition to shame. PBS' Moll Flanders...
...miniseries, one symphony and one long-running Las Vegas spectacular have apparently not surfeited the world's appetite for Titanica. By the time James Cameron's movie arrives in theaters next summer, audiences will already be humming Nearer My God to Thee, thanks to a new storm of Titanic mania...
Wired invented geek mystique and made the promise of the wired world palpable. Perhaps if Louis had tried to go public a few months earlier--at the height of the Net mania he helped create--I would have been the latest, um, thousandaire. But he didn't. It's a mistake his competitors now celebrate like an armistice. Why? Louis tweaked the established media, by beating them to a rich new market. That was forgivable. But then he terrified them by predicting their demise--just as everybody now predicts his. Everybody...
There's lots more, from barbershops tuned into CNBC and cabbies gabbing about mutual funds to a record number of investment clubs and the rise to guru status of two advisers who wear clown hats and go by the name Motley Fool. If it's not a mania, it's certainly close. "I'm nervous," concedes Fossel. "We're finally getting to the point where everyone thinks the market can only go onward and upward...
DIET-PILL MANIA...