Word: manias
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...near Lahore, I was greeted with the timeless scene of young men bowling and batting through the mist rising off a well-tended pitch. They were bearded and wore their trousers hiked up above their ankles - in the manner of the Prophet Muhammad. Even foreigners are touched by cricket mania. Afghanistan, never a cricket-playing nation, is well on its way to the 2011 World Cup through the skills acquired by players who grew up in Pakistani refugee camps near the border...
...streets - and of the stars taking their fame with sensible aplomb, as if clarity comes only in the eye of the media hurricane. At one point watching clips of the Beatles and other teen idols on Sullivan, the Jonases are presented as people schooled in the history of pop-mania, its skyrocketing and fizzling. Their mission is to enjoy and survive...
...story Television Cultural Center, which was supposed to house the spiffy Beijing Mandarin Oriental, was designed by renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, who intended to match the aesthetics of the adjacent China Central Television headquarters. Amidst the Olympics mania in 2004, the Chinese government hired Koolhaas’s firm to design a new headquarters for CCTV. The massive six-million-square-foot complex that resulted, which includes the Television Cultural Center, came to be known as “Zhichuang,” or “knowledge window.” With two leaning towers connected...
Winslet won her point, but that's about as diva-ish as she gets. The kind of behavior that could get her called a movie star spooks her; she started running away from the label in 1998, desperate to escape Titanic mania, and if it's gaining on her, she doesn't want to know. "For her, it reflects a lifestyle she doesn't aspire to," says Mendes. "And also, if you call yourself a movie star, the next movie you're in will probably prove that you're not." Movie stars have projects built around them; Winslet seeks...
Bernstein: Seriously, we think there's a metamorphosis under way and the credit mania stories that we saw in the last three, four, five, six years are unlikely to come back. We think overall we're going to be moving away from these credit-driven stories and much more towards self-financing stories...