Word: mania
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simple explanation for theme mania is that the why factor is overwhelmed by the who and the wow! factors. Stardust, glitz and fantasy are worth the wait. It is entertainment for the price of a burger. Elaborates Tim Zagat, publisher of the Zagat restaurant guides, which rate restaurants in 25 American cities: "The food doesn't have to be all that good, as long as it doesn't poison you. You go because you are interested...
...some of these shows, such as the proliferating Star Trek spin-offs, the aliens are benign, intellectually curious--like American mid-century liberals, only with pointy ears or exposed frontal lobes. The Zeitgeistiest programs, however, tap into a pop persecution mania. Consider this: the U.S. stands unchallenged as a world power, is not at war, enjoys a high standard of living and has relatively stable rates of interest and unemployment; yet polls continue to show a profound malaise. People feel crushed by government, abused by corporate employers, baffled by computers. "Technology is moving fast-forward," says Carter, "and we rarely...
Until last year, the tournament was open only to residents of Quincy House, considered by some to be a "bastion of foosball mania...
That happened again last week during a four-day mania on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The setting was the U.S. showroom of the auctioneer Sotheby's; the occasion, the public sale of 5,914 personal items belonging to the estate of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. And the outcome was not only a bewildering binge of conspicuous consumption but a perverse tribute, crass in some eyes and innocently romantic in others, to the allure of nostalgia and of the woman who single-handedly, and in many ways involuntarily, redefined the culture of celebrity...
This is one failed couple that will never be free of each other, both because their son will one day be King and because the press and the public seem permanently obsessed with them. Charles' future has been dictated from his birth, but the latest wave of Di-mania focused on speculation about what will become of her. Not only does no one know what her life will be like, it's hard to picture her as anything other than the world's most famous royal princess...