Word: manias
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...debut effort, Off The Wall), Jackson went immediately to work on a follow-up. After five years of pain-staking work, the world was once again mesmerized by the master. With the largest advance orders for any album ever, Bad solidified Jackson’s success and ignited Michael-mania once again. The album spawned single after single, becoming the second-largest musical success story after Thriller and earning the young musician the coveted title of the King of Pop. Songs like “The Way You Make Me Feel?...
...depressive sense that "life has dealt me some bum cards. Or maybe I didn't play them right." But the Coens do. They lay out their story in pearly, sepulchral black-and-white, infuse the dialogue with mordant wit and somehow blend those two postwar innovations, UFO mania and dry cleaning...
...many Americans, Armstrong?s third victory - much like his first in 1999 and his second in 2000 - will pass more or less unnoticed. The Lance-mania that has gripped the Tour has yet to make its way across the Atlantic. If America?s best cyclist does win Sunday, there will be none of the hysterical and over-the-top celebrations that coincide with NBA or NFL championships. Little press will be dedicated to what is generally considered the world?s most grueling and spectacular cycling event, which stretches over 21 days and 2,159 miles. In Europe, Armstrong cannot walk...
...Waiting for the U.S. is risky, and not just because the growth might never come. Even if the U.S. economy does pick up later this year, it could be a decade before there is a repeat of the high-tech mania that carried Asia for three years after the 1997 crisis. New technologies, such as third-generation mobile phones, have been glitchy, and even consumers with money to spend seem unimpressed by those innovations that have come on the market. Unless U.S. shoppers can be convinced that something is wrong with the computers they already have, or that they need...
...biggest winners are the industries feeding off mold mania. "Six years ago, people laughed in my face," says Ed Cross, a lawyer in Santa Ana, Calif. Since then, he has won mold settlements as large as $978,000 and says he gets 50 calls a week from potential clients. Steve Temes, an industrial hygienist in Red Bank, N.J., charges $150 an hour for mold inspections. "I used to do radon and lead testing," he says. "But there was no demand...